On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:23:28PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > > indeed, and it's a bonus that ~ == nobreakspace (although I can imagine > that we'd get rid of it) but defining other macros in terms of active > characters is a bad idea > > (in fact one can use the unicode nbsp character) >
I have always liked this TeX active character (~). As information for users of X11: setxkbmap -option nbsp:level2 (and the equivalent in "xorg.conf" or "etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-init.fdi") gives nbsp as shift+space. On the subject of unicode characters, I just discovered the ":dig" command (diagraphs) under my favorite editor "vim"! Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
