The starting quote marks at the end of a line in my epub file are separated from the words quoted.

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January 18, 2014
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The starting quote marks at the end of a line in my epub file are routinely separated from the word quoted which appears on the next line. The formatting contractor accurance.com who prepared this epub file tells me that this is a feature of Adobe Digital Edition 2.0 and that there is nothing they can do to correct this. Are they correct, or else how can this problem be overcome?

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sjpt

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I can't see this bad behaviour on a file I'm looking at in ADE2.0.

There probably is something they could do to force the complete quoted word to come on a line,

but it would be quite clumsy for them. Probably wrap it to it looks like

<span style="white-space:nowrap">"quotedword"</span>

(or cleaner with appropriate css)

But maybe ADE would get even that wrong.

Maybe they are using the " or “ form and leaving a space after the ';' (or using a space instead of the ';')?

You can see if 1.7.2 has the same bug.

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PeterAleffAuthor

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Thank you, sjpt, for your reply. The problem occurs only in portrait mode with a side-by-side two-page display on my desktop screen. So far, I tried only the "medium" font size, but there the separation of the quote marks from the words quoted happens consistently whenever that quoted word falls at the end of a line. I am using ADE2.0. In landscape mode and single-page display, I did not observe the problem.

Please explain what you mean by "appropriate css". I saw an advertisement by one formatting contractor that they establish a style sheet for each device, but how does that work, and how do I translate this into instructions for my present contractor? There is presently no space between those quote marks and the words quoted.

Thank you in advance for your additional help.

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sjpt

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A formatting contractor will know what I mean by "appropriate css".

Whether they manage to find such css that is able to work around ADE bugs is another matter.

Unfortunately, experimenting with such things is pretty time consuming, and so likely to be expensive.

If the document is not DRM you could try a different reader program ~ almost anything will be better than ADE.

However, if you are preparing this for sale that might not be appropriate.

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css files give formatting rules, for example how to lay out paragraphs, space between them, indentation, etc.

Normally a style sheet for each device will allow for things like device size and resolution,

and also (possibly) for bugs in the device software that means is does not interpret the css rules correctly.

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