Run together words in book description?

[Stephen]

I noticed some run together words in this book's description. I corrected the description and while what appears in edit does not have run together words, the description displayed on the book detail page still does.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...

Can someone please enlighten me as to what's up?

[Betsy]

Interesting. On the book page, the description does have run together words and the description ends with the "more" link to get more description. When you click that link, there is no additional description, but the run together words are fixed. I don't know how to fix this. Sorry.

[rivka, Former Moderator]

It has to do with non-breaking spaces, and it's a royal pain to fix. I generally don't bother.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

It's a combination of word-wrap and kerning on the fonts plus in settings buried in site programming that wants to closeup perceived excess blank spaces and lines (likely a css thing). Nothing librarians can control.

Not sure it's a great idea to load a text description with html codes but you can try the nonbreaking space html code which is (do not type spaces, I just put in so you could see, codes do need to be by themselves and not butted up against other words):

            & # 1 6 0 ;

another version if it won't accept that one:

            & n b s p ;

(don't think goodreads handles all of the codes which is why it says "some html is ok" above comment box; but both codes work when I tested).

It's exactly what happens if you try to indent (like I did above for those codes) or space something over in comments without inserting non-breaking space code like I just did and why hard to get extra blank lines at top or bottom of a comment.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Shall I try to insert or am I tripping over someone else editing? ....working on.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

I think that fixed it on that edition.