William, try the U+2000..U+200A glyphs under General Punctuation--I think that's what you're looking for to manage precise widths of blank space. And many (most?) software routines do not treat these as part of the class of spacing characters (\s in regular expressions).
Best wishes, jk -- Joel Kalvesmaki Editor in Byzantine Studies Dumbarton Oaks 1703 32nd St. NW Washington, DC 20007 (202) 339-6435 On 3/27/14 4:13 AM, "William_J_G Overington" <[email protected]> wrote: >Does regular Unicode have a character that looks like a space to a human >yet is not treated as a space by software please? > >Please consider my use of U+E001 in the following thread. > >https://community.serif.com/forum/pageplus/9646/formatting-poetry-for-e-bo >oks > >Essentially, can that effect be achieved without using a Private Use Area >character? > >William Overington > >27 March 2014 > >_______________________________________________ >Unicode mailing list >[email protected] >http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
