Nick Hopton wrote:
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In fact you can insert white space that won't be ignored by LaTeX by
inserting the sort of space you get by pressing the Alt-255 key
combination. This can sometimes be useful for fine formatting of
tables, for example.
Perhaps that works on some machines (windows?), mine just adds the text
"255" just as if "alt" wasn't in use.
For fine adjustments that works in all cases, consider
ctrl+space (protected space) or ctrl+shift+space (protected thin space).
The latter is useful in other cases where
you want a small separator too, such as phone numbers
or as a thousands separator.
Helge Hafting
