On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, Dave Kemper wrote: > \& has no effect on breaking (nor is it documented to). "Zero-width > space" is kind of a misnomer for it, I guess. CSTR #54 called it a > "zero width filler character"; the term "zero-width space" for it > seems specific to the Texinfo document.
Surely the most useful and accurate way to describe \& is "a zero-width, non-printing character." -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca