Does regular Unicode have a character that looks like a space to a human yet is
not treated as a space by software please?
Please consider my use of U+E001 in the following thread.
https://community.serif.com/forum/pageplus/9646/formatting-poetry-for-e-books
Essentially, can that effect be
2014-03-27 10:13, William_J_G Overington wrote:
Does regular Unicode have a character that looks like a space to a
human yet is not treated as a space by software please?
It depends, among other things, on what you mean by “space”.
There’s U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE, which surely isn’t the same
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On 3/27/14 4:13 AM, "William_J_G Overington"
wrote:
>Does regular Unicode have a character that looks like a space to a human
>yet is not treated as a space by
2014-03-27 15:10, Kalvesmaki, Joel wrote:
William, try the U+2000..U+200A glyphs under General Punctuation--I think
that's what you're looking for to manage precise widths of blank space.
That range contains some “fixed-width spaces”, yes. Being “fixed-width”
is rather relative here, though,
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Points taken. I just note for the record that in academic publishing and
scholarly editions these spacing characters are actively used,
particularly in InDesign files and in diplomatic editions rendered in XML.
The legacy lives.
jk
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Joel Kalvesmaki
Editor in Byzantine Studies
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On managing some types of spacing between elements in running text:
On 3/27/2014 8:04 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
2014-03-27 15:10, Kalvesmaki, Joel wrote:
William, try the U+2000..U+200A glyphs under General Punctuation--I
think
that's what you're looking for to manage precise widths of blan
2014-03-29 13:01, Asmus Freytag wrote:
On managing some types of spacing between elements in running text:
On 3/27/2014 8:04 AM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
[…]
The “fixed-width spaces” are mostly just legacy characters, holdover
from old typography. They may have their uses, though, in contexts
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