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Re: Non break space

From: Laurent Carcone <carcone@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:33:00 +0200
Message-ID: <48FE124C.1060903@w3.org>
To: Dominique Meeùs <dominique@meeus-d.be>
CC: www-amaya@w3.org

Dominique Meeùs wrote:
>
> With some googling, I discovered in a forum that Ctrl+space gives a 
> non break-space (Unicode hex a0) in Amaya. Fine. (It is the same in 
> OOo Writer.) Non break space is vital in French where you need it in 
> quotations inside « » and before the four double punctuation signs as 
> : ; ! ? but it is also important in all languages. If you refer to 
> some p. 7, you wouldn't like the 7 on next line.
>
> Is there another way to obtain a non break space? Is Ctrl-space 
> sufficiently documented? I do not find a non break space in the Insert 
> menu, nor in the special characters toolbar and I do not find 
> Ctrl-space under Help.
>
Hello Dominique,

The Ctrl-space is listed in the Help page, in the section 'Entering 
characters'.
I don't know if it has to be present in the special characters toolbar. 
We'll discuss it.

Thanks,
Laurent Carcone
Received on Tuesday, 21 October 2008 17:48:05 UTC

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