At 07:54 PM 1/28/2002 +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> > >BTW: Is there a spatium (like \, in LaTeX)?
> >
> > And what is \, supposed to do? And .. is that a hack or something
> > typographically correct?
>
>It's a typographical "must", not a hack!
>It's a little unbreakable fixed-width space, about a quarter of an em; you
ok, that's not a hack, but the \, looks like one -)
>need it to organize numbers like:
>Telefon (07\,89) 6\,78\,90
>Konto 12\,345\,678
>And even between a number and a unit should be no space, but a spatium:
>123\,m -- 100\,\% -- 56\,\euro
so, it's a thinspace, well then you're already served by
what|~|a|~|thin|~|space
Hans
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