Chris Travers wrote:
But what's the point of putting non-breaking spaces between a word and the end of a line? or for that matter what if I alternate spaces and special unicode spaces? Do I get a word space for each of them?
In (e.g.,) HTML, it is by no means unusual to interweave spaces and s. just before end of line is less common, but I am sure someone has a use for it.
I think one of the key strengths of TeX is that it can be edited gracefully by ANY basic text editor. I would hate for that to be lost.
Indeed, that was indeed one of the great strengths of TeX 2. Sadly DEK lost the plot in 1999 and allowed those nasty Europeans to start using /accented characters/ (spit, vomit) in TeX 3, at which point half the editors in the world were made useless overnight. Now JK has gone even further down the same road and is actually allowing /Unicode/, so by now perhaps 90% of the existing "basic text editors" are useless. So we may as well disenfranchise the remaining 9.99999% and allow invisible markup as well. :-) ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
