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Originally Posted by WillAdams
Abecedary suggested looking at Christie, Agatha: The Mysterious Affair at Styles. v2. 29 Aug 2009...
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William
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William, I should have mentioned that I haven't actually proofed that book yet--I pretty much threw it together and was going to get around to sitting down and
reading it in the next week or so. So corrections like straight quotes and left single quotes instead of apostrophes are much appreciated (I simply ran TextWrangler's 'educate quotes' feature on the block of text and hoped for the best, which obviously wasn't enough).
However, many of your complaints are limitations of the technology. This is the point that some here are repeatedly trying to make, but that seems to keep falling on deaf ears. Nonexistent hyphenation, which results in poor justification, rivers, and stacks. And even if there were hyphenation, the stack/river problem wouldn't be fixable due to the reflowability of e-text. I'm not sure if there are thinspace/hairspaces in HTML, nor if any of the renderers would pay attention to them if they were inserted. However, I will look into that for future updates. Thanks for your input.