[Pmwiki-users] non broken strings

[John Rankin]

On Friday, 22 October 2004 9:45 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>[I'm cleaning up the mailbox of emails that have gone
>unanswered...  --Pm]
>
>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 "&nbsp;" 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...
>
>> Any suggestions on reasonable mark-up for enclosing such strings? 
>> Maybe something like ``I don't want this line wrapped`` (i.e. use 
>> double backquotes).  Is there anything that would be more consistent 
>> with existing mark-up (or maybe double backquote is already
>used?).
>
>Double-backquote isn't already used and makes sense for this; OTOH, 
>this sounds more like something that could go in a WikiStyle.  


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.


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JR
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John Rankin