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Originally Posted by bearstardiode
I know that an extra <br/> tag could mess things up, but why should I be concerned about an extra tag? Is it just that the spacing would be off? And wouldn't I notice that in Book View or a previewer anyway?
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You wouldn't notice it in the Book View unless the nonbreaking space happened close enough to the end of a line that it forced the two words on either side of it to the next line.
You'd be concerned because, depending on the reader's settings, it forces those words to stay together. This is especially annoying if they're long words and the reader is reading at a larger font size.
So if you have a line like:
The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance.
... it's fine. If, however, you wound up with between "framework" and "scarcely," a reader could be stuck with:
The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic
framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was
ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance.
Tolerable; not great. Or worse, if they're reading in large print on a small device:
The thing the Time Traveller held in his
hand was a glittering metallic
framework, scarcely larger than a small
clock, and very delicately made. There
was ivory in it, and some transparent
crystalline substance.
Any one instance will likely not be noticed. However, one every tenth word would make for awful formatting in many views.