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Old 11-13-2019, 01:08 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by roger64 View Post
The narrow no-break space would be perfect if it was widely recognized. It's not.
Thin space is the next most widely supported... but even that has inconsistent line-breaking applied across programs (noted in Post #45 referenced above).

(Now, the reason why you would ever want a thin space to actually line-break baffles me...)

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Originally Posted by roger64 View Post
The no-break space is the second best choice and is widely recognized. It's declared winner.
Sadly, yes.

There's also all these ugly and hackish "solutions" floating around online, like trying to do:

Code:
<p>―<small>&nbsp;</small>This is a sentence.</p>
but that would probably introduce even worse issues.

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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
I did want to 2nd your comment about the thin-space. I really, really wish it would be widely recognized! There's a reason it exists and that's because, it's needed, dammit.
Indeed. Most common case in English is inner/outer quotes right next to each other:

“And then she said, ‘Are they supported yet?’ ”

but French... there just ain't no way around it!

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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
Oh, hey, it's not like the forum police (mods) will come along and beat you for posting in the wrong place.
Maybe we could poke them and get these few posts split. It sure would make it easier to find if you didn't have search-engine-fu like me. :P
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