Re: [quickbook] Non-breaking-space?

Rene Rivera wrote:
> João Abecasis wrote:
>
> > 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 think we should take advantage of macros as much as possible
before considering any syntax addition. nbsp can definitely be
a macro, FWIW, e.g.:

    [def _nbsp_ [''' ''']]

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

If this is a common use case, then I'd lean towards the nobreak
syntax. This begs to ask the question: shouldn't the teletype
markup preserve spaces like pre? That is, shouldn't [^-f /Jambase/]
do the right thing already?

Regards,
--
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net



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