Hallo. Typesetting of Czech language has a special rule for single-letter prepositions: Space after this letter is not breakable, but if break does not occur, it is a subject of expansion (when typesetting justified text).
Ordinarily software uses NBSP, but such text looks ugly, because NBSP has fixed width (see lower for example). Can anybody say, what is correct for "non-breakable expandable space"? NBH + SPACE NBH + SPACE + NBH WJ + SPACE SPACE + WJ WJ + SPACE + WJ Anything else... Or propose new character(s) No Break Variable Width Space (and/or Zero Width Expandable Space)? Cite: UNICODE UAX#14 3 says: When expanding or compressing inter-word space, only the space marked by U+0020 SPACE and U+3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE are normally subject to compression, and only spaces marked by U+0020 SPACE, and occasionally spaces marked by U+2009 THIN SPACE are subject to expansion. All other space characters have fixed width. Reference: Issue 9727: Stretchy unbreakable space http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9727 Examples: For TeX users: unexpandable non-break space = \hbox{ } expandable non-break space = ~ Ugly line 2, last space (NBSP) is too narrow: Bezne se jako nezlomitelna rozsiritelna mezera pouziva Unicode znak <NBSP> (jako treba v tomto pripade). Takova mezera je vsak pevna a pri zarovnani do bloku pusobi nehezky. Nice line 2, last space is OK: Bezne se jako nezlomitelna rozsiritelna mezera pouziva Unicode znak <NBSP> (jako treba v tomto pripade). Takova mezera je vsak pevna a pri zarovnani do bloku pusobi nehezky. -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec pracovník vývoje softwaru / software developer -- SuSE CR, s. r. o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Drahobejlova 27 tel: +420 296 542 382 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 296 542 374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/
