On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:40:04AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In your use case, you can avoid line breaks using the @w command: > > > > @deftypefun int f4 () > > @w{@math{@var{n} = -2}}. > > @end deftypefun > > If the @w ignored in math mode?
No, the contents of @w are not split across lines. > The manual just says: > > The space from '@w{ }', as well as being non-breakable, also will not > stretch or shrink. Sometimes that is what you want, for instance if > you're doing manual indenting. However, usually you want a normal > interword space that does stretch and shrink (in the printed output); > for that, see the '@tie' command in the next section. > > For PDF output, I want the spaces to be the usual ones that are > generated in math mode. The spaces in math mode are not usual interword spaces as math mode formatting is very different to regualar paragraph formatting.