On 30/03/2004 18:01, fantasai wrote:
Ernest Cline wrote:
The main usage is with compound words such as "ice cream" or
"Louis XIV" or commercial phrases such as "Camry SE" where for
esthetic reasons an author would prefer that the space not expand
upon justification,
Given wide enough measures, good text layout program should be able
to produce justified text without very noticeable changes in word
spacing.
NBSP doesn't break, but should it justify?
I believe NBSP should be, to the reader, indistinguishable from a
regular space. It does not have a semantic function as a compound-
word-joiner; it's just a space that doesn't break, and therefore
should be treated like any other space.
~fantasai
So perhaps the best thing to do in cases like Ernest's and mine, where a
fixed width non-breaking space is required, is to use FIGURE SPACE,
which I understand is non-breaking. But then perhaps this is too wide in
some circumstances - in many fonts it is twice the regular width of SPACE.
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Peter Kirk
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