From 13dbd42f35d3b5bc36ee3fa46a8ec2cab19e1d71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ldolse <ldolse@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:19:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added ellipsis substitutions to the smarten punctuation
 option

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

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
index 3ff816b3bf..bc4df4233a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
@@ -554,5 +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)
         return substitute_entites(html)