- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 06:49:59 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 8:22a -0500 09/26/96, Foteos Macrides wrote:
>Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie> wrote:
>>> I think most people use the in this way as most browsers present it
>>> as a space. But is there an entity (now or proposed) that would meet your
>>> three requirements? Maybe a non-breaking version of an em-space, etc.?
>>
>>That would be <code> </code>, I guess.
>
> That still doesn't address the ambiguity about its width. There's
>no ambigutity for ensp, emsp, thinsp, etc., but how wide a "blank graphic
>character" should be used for nbsp when justification is not being used?
>Is it a "non-breaking ensp", or "non-breaking emsp", or what?
My understanding is that a nonbreaking space occupies the same width as a
regular numeral (0-9) in the current font.
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