From 10b3353f57cea9f3bc18d29b367acedd05832162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ldolse <ldolse@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:16:32 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] tweaked the ellipsis substitution

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
index bc4df4233a..3385771228 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
@@ -554,8 +554,8 @@ class HTMLPreProcessor(object):
         html = smartyPants(html)
         html = html.replace(start, '<!--')
         html = html.replace(stop, '-->')
-        # convert ellipsis to entities to prevent unwrapping
-        html = re.sub('(?u)(?<=\w)(\.\s?){3}', '&hellip;', html)
-        html = re.sub('(?u)(?<=\w)\s(\.\s?){3}', '&nbsp;&hellip;', html)
+        # convert ellipsis to entities to prevent wrapping
+        html = re.sub('(?u)(?<=\w)\s?(\.\s?){2}\.', '&hellip;', html)
+        # nbsp gets changed to space: html = re.sub('(?u)(?<=\w)\s(\.\s?){2}\.', '&nbsp;&hellip;', html)
         return substitute_entites(html)