Re: Re: [quickbook] Non-breaking-space?

João Abecasis wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>
> > Having to use ''' ''' is cumbersome, makes the quickbook code 
> > hard to read on it's own, and error prone. I made at least three 
> > errors while inserting them in my case. Which I only discovered 
> > during/after conversion. And don't be misled by the teletype, I can 
> > see such things coming up outside of that.
>
> Have you tried directly using the Unicode non-break space?

No.

> Quickbook is 
> supposed to handle utf-8 correctly (in this case, the character sequence 
> for the non-break space would be 0xc2 0xa0). I think this would be the 
> best way to go about this.
>
> Of course, if you use an editor that isn't Unicode aware, this might not 
> be feasible.

It's has a variety of encodings support. But I have no clue how to use 
the Windows Unicode, or UTF, input modes. I doubt most people do. And 
this doesn't seem like the situation where I would consider such 
support, of having to insert special (i.e. visible) characters, like (c).

> In the future, there has been talk about adding the 
> recognition of unicode escape sequences as part of a quickbook 
> preprocessor (something like \u00A0 for nbsp). Then again, it's probably 
> not that much better than ''' '''.

Ah, no, I'd say that's worse. At least ``` ``` is humanly legible 
(barely).

> The last option, I think, would be to add special markup for this, e.g., 
> [nbsp] (?).

As a single character? I.e. in[nbsp]one[nbsp]line. That's not much 
better than escaping to xml. My suggestion would be: 'in one line', and 
['in one line].

I guess another possibility is to make an "nobreak" code syntax. And 
then one could: [nobreak] `in one line`.



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