Hi Nasser, you can use
\Configure{qquad}{\HCode{\string&\#x00A0;}} to configure \qquad in your config file. It don't have a configuration by default. \, can be configured with \Configure{,}, but it seems that this work only in math mode, if I understand correctly definition in tex4ht-4ht.tex: ---------- \def\:tempc{\relax\ifmmode\csname a:,\endcsname\else\thinspace\fi} \expandafter\HLet\csname , \endcsname=\:tempc \def\:tempc{\relax \ifmmode\csname a:,\endcsname\expandafter\:gobble\fi \o:thinspace: } \HLet\thinspace=\:tempc \NewConfigure{,}{1} \Configure{,}{\mskip\thinmuskip} ------------ \, is configured to use \Configure{,} in math mode, otherwise \thinspace is used. \thinspace is also configured to use \Configure{,} in math mode, otherwise original \thinspace code is used (\o:thinspace: is created with \HLet\thinspace and it is saved original \thinspace). Maybe new configuration, like \Configure{thinspace-text} should be provided instead in text mode. I've also found some really weird behavior of tex4ht with -utf8 option, like in htlatex filename "xhtml, charset=utf-8" " -cunihtf -utf8" non breaking space entities ( ) are converted to regular spaces with this option. Best regards, Michal 2014-07-20 1:08 GMT+02:00 Nasser M. Abbasi <n...@12000.org>: > Hello; > > The following tex file > ------------------- > \documentclass[12pt]{article} > \begin{document} > This is \qquad space. > \end{document} > ------------------- > > when compiled using htlatex foo.tex produces this html for > the line above > > ------------------------ > > <!--l. 6--><p class="noindent" >This is space. > ---------------------------------- > > But the above space in HTML shows up as a single space does > not show up. It should have used Non-Breaking Space " ". > > One way to add this support is given by Radhakrishnan in > this answer: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.tex4ht/86 > > One has to add this to the .cfg > > \makeatletter > % thin space to html thin space > %\ <at> ifundefined{HCode}{}{\def\thinspace{\HCode{\string&\#x2009;}}} > % thin space to html non-breaking space > \ <at> ifundefined{HCode}{}{\def\thinspace{\HCode{\string&\#x00A0;}}} > \makeatother > > I was wondering if it is not much work, if this could be > integrated into tex4ht itself, so that it works like the above > out of the box for both \quad and \qquad? > > thank you > --Nasser >