On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
I have done my share of fitting relatively large font text into a small space
and trying to get the wrapping to look nice; with a nbsp there will almost
certainly be some font size+page width combinations that look bad.
We should probably discuss and decide one way or the other and actually put
it in the word list, so we remember for next time. I actually don't have
strong feelings either way.
"Ports Collection" is there now. Or do you mean nbsp in general? I
think the justification for using in "&os; 9.2" is that the version
number is so narrow on its own that it would simply look bad if wrapped
to the beginning of a line. That's a guess, I don't recall any explicit
justification. As Gabor pointed out, it may not work or may even be
contrary to what is desirable in translations.
I went back through the history of this file, and at least one instance was
added in r33364 by pgj (cc'd), with review by gabor@, even! That was back in
Dec 2008, so changing our minds now would not be terrible, if we want to.
Does anyone want to argue for keeping the nbsp?
For "FreeBSD 9.2", numbers and units like "8 GB", and guibutton uses, I
think using nbsp is probably okay. For "Ports Collection" or other
instances of multiple full words, I can't think of a compelling reason
to use it.
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