David Abrahams wrote:
> "John Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> So.... I'm hoping that this can be solved by changing the
>> pretty-printing code, but I have suspicions that the problems may
>> run deeper.
>
> In ReST they have a "breaking non-space."  That is, if you
> backslash-escape a space character, you get something that can
> separate tokens without generating any space in the output:
>
>  x\ super(2)
>
> In quickbook maybe that should be:
>
>  x[]super(2)
>
> Although I think I might prefer:
>
>  x!super(2)
>
> An exclamation point with no whitespace on either side is sufficiently
> rare, I think.

That would do it, but note that we already have a poor-man's version of this 
using an empty comment:

x[/]super(2)

But you still get the extra whitespace :-(

Even this:

x'''<superscript>2</superscript>'''

has extra whitespace inserted!

John. 



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