[softwarelist] Re: Hard spaces

In message <482F5DBD.9040306@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Prewett <pprewett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Firstly there is "hard space", but there is also "fixed space..." this will let
So there is not a means of inserting a hard space with a short cut key or a menu item in a line other then going through and setting up each individual space from a table.
The fall back position is that you can copy and paste fixed spaces via the clipboard.
There are constant macros... quoting from page 122 in the Windows script manual 

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emspace
Breaking, non-delimiting em space
emspace_d
Breaking, delimiting em space
emspace_n
Non-breaking, non-delimiting em space
emspace_nd
Non-breaking, delimiting em space
enspace
Breaking, non-delimiting en space
enspace_d
Breaking, delimiting en space
enspace_n
Non-breaking, non-delimiting en space
enspace_nd
Non-breaking, delimiting en space
=======================================================
The point being that you can set up macro keypresses to use these for example define F1 to be {emspace_nd}. The insert menu just consists of a series of definitions like that.
I suspect that typographically using these macros may be the right thing, rather than setting off doing lots of different fixed spaces. 

Finally you can define a macro with a body like this:

{ddl("x={story {space 0 56692 0 0}}")}
That gets you all the possibilities of fixed space from a macro. How you do know the values after "space" above? - set up a fixed space in some text, select it, and save out as DDL, load into a text editor and read off. 



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