[Pmwiki-users] non broken strings

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:14:49AM +1300, John Rankin wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:47:47AM +0200, Larry Baltz wrote:
> >> Just wondering if anyone else has needed to create strings that aren't 
> >> broken for line wrapping.  I've used the " " mark-up, but that's 
> >> pretty intrusive (i.e. hard to read the string when the character 
> >> entities are embedded) and gets to be a drag to type when you have 
> >> multiple spaces in the string.  
> >
> >I often use ALT+0160 on my keyboard (under WinXP) to generate a non-breaking
> >space.  But creating a markup for an entire line would be
> >useful...
> 
> Could i suggest '` ' (backtick space) as there is a precedent in 
> Christian's `. for an invisible stop and the markup extensions for
> `- (en dash) and so on.

'` ' sounds really good to me.  It certainly merits a cookbook recipe;
I may go ahead and put it in the distribution.  

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