- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 20:16:41 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 10:11p -0400 07/12/97, Liam Quinn wrote:
> At 06:59 PM 12/07/97 -0700, David Perrell wrote:
> >Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet wrote:
> >> 2. There is definite statement on being collapsing or
> >not.
> >
> >A statement there should definitely be, and it should definitely be
> >'not'.
>
> Why?
At the risk of repeating what I probably already said sometime last year,
a non-breaking space is not a space -- it just *looks* like one. In the
Courier font (or a similar typewriter-mimicking font), the number "1"
looks exactly like the lowercase "l". But it's a different character code
and therefore a different character: nbspace is not space.
Syllogism:
Major premise: Spaces collapse.
Minor premise: NBspace is not a space. (It's just rendered to look like one.)
Conclusion: Ergo, NBspaces do not collapse.
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