[mso] Re: Non-breaking spaces
- From: "Greg Chapman" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:53:50 -0600
A non-breaking space and it's straight brother, the non-breaking hyphen
are from the main-frame era although their use is much older and still
valuable. Using either one is an indicator to the system that a line
should not be allowed to break between words connected by either of
these constructs. Literally translated, they mean "I'm not really a
space or a hyphen. I'm a character which tells you to treat these two
words as one and breaking the line here is breaking rule that says you
won't break a word as you move to the next line.
Dian once showed me a neat way to control text flow in headers and
footers using non-breaking spaces in Word, come to think of it.
In HTML, a non-breaking space (; ) also happens to be the only way
to stack multiple spaces between words since a succession of consecutive
standard spaces is always rendered as a single space.
Greg Chapman
http://www.mousetrax.com
"Counting in binary is as easy as 01, 10, 11!
With thinking this clear, is coding really a good idea?"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jan Beasley
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:49 PM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Non-breaking spaces
>
>
>
> At 03:02 PM 12/4/2002, you wrote:
> >Like I said, Jan....if you go look at the link I sent you to see the
> >character marks, you will see that the little degree symbol is a
> >non-breaking space.
>
> Ok, first, sorry I didn't read that first - sometimes I don't
> "listen" so well.
>
> Now I know what it's called, but I want to know why. There may be
> no useful purpose in knowing, but what is the difference between a
> non-breaking space and the space you get when you hit the space bar
> and the symbol shows up as a tiny solid dot between the words?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Jan
>
>
> Jan Beasley ~ Virtual Assistant
> Virtual Foundations
> mailto:jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.virtualfoundations.biz
>
>
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