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Originally Posted by PeterT
Roger64; I think some of my confusion in following this has been the usage by you of the term   throughout. When I (and others) looked in your document there were non period. Launching Libre Office (sorry I don't have Open Office installed) I see the option exists to "insert a non-breaking-space", but from what I have subsequently learnt, this is NOT saved as the sequence  , bur rather as a unicode character.
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Thanks for this info. I published my source odt file, the one I used with writer2xhtml and Calibre to create my EPUBs.
I am a longtime OpenOffice user. To insert a I first suppress the former whitespace it replaces, then use the command Shift-Control-Space and this creates a greyed out area which signify there is (or should be) a here. There are also typographical utilities around that do the same job for you following French typographic rules.
I did not know about your point. To expect the average user to be knowledgeable about this subtility is a dream. I think it would be fair not to count on it and help him supplying a where he asks for an .