- From: (unknown charset) David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 15:37:06 -0700
- To: (unknown charset) <www-html@w3.org>
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: > 1. It's just like the letter "G", but using no ink. Best to avoid statements like this. Someone might mistake it for an accurate analogy and spout it as gospel in a subsequent argument. > #1 is closer to current practice in a particular piece > of shi^H^Hoftware that shall remain nameless. Assuming you don't really mean that gets the same horizontal space as an invisible "G" in anything but a monospaced font, let me guess: Microsoft Word? Adobe Pagemaker? > #2 better fits advanced typological practice: e.g. justified > text will pad or squeeze them like other spaces. Assuming you mean "typographical," note that neither of the aforementioned applications treat non-breaking spaces in such an advanced manner. Pagemaker, though, does have the equivalent of <NOBR>.
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