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Re: [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage
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Bernt Hansen |
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Re: [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage |
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Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:54:42 -0400 |
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Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:
> Bernt Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Erik Butz <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > I want to use the \nbsp macro to generate a '~' symbol for Latex, but
>> > I don't seem to get it to work correctly in my case.
>> > I want to write 200~m=C2=B2
>> >
>> > If I do: 200\nbspm^2
>> > it gets exported as: 200\nbspm$^2$, so the symbol is not recognized.
>> >
>> > If I do: 200\nbsp m^2
>> > it gets exported as 198~ m$^2$, so in addition to the nbsp there is
>> > another space at which a linebreak can occur
>> >
>> > trying: 200\nbsp{}m^2 in analogy to other commands
>> > I get: 200~\{\}m$^2$, so the parentheses are not recognized as
>> > belonging to the command.
>> >
>> This seems to work for me:
>>
>> ,----[ sample org file ]
>> | * nbsp
>> | If I do: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve 2=
>> 00\nbsp m^2 it gets exported
>> `----
>>
>> this exports as=20
>>
>> ,----[ latex output ]
>> | ...
>> | \label{sec-1}
>> |=20
>> | If I do: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve 2=
>> 00~ m\^{}2 it gets exported
>> | \end{document}
>> `----
>>
>> and when I look at that as a PDF it doesn't break between the 200 and
>> m^2. I tried adding x and xx before the 200 and it pushes the entire
>> thing to the next line. I can't make it break on a line so 200 is at
>> the end of one line and m^2 is on the following line.
>
> I suspect that you cannot decide the question with a simple experiment
> like this, but I have no counterexample to offer.
>
> However, Knuth warns explicitly (p.91 of my version of the TeXbook,
> paperback 19th printing, Oct. 1990) that "...you shouldn't leave any blanks
> next to the ~, since they will count as additional spaces."
>
> It may well be that TeX's line-breaking algorithm does the right thing in
> the example, but when push comes to shove in a *really* complicated situation,
> it might be forced to choose the space after the tilde to break the line at.
Ooops :) Thanks for the pointer to the docs!
-Bernt
- [Orgmode] \nbsp usage, Erik Butz, 2010/07/13
- [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage, Bernt Hansen, 2010/07/13
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage, Nick Dokos, 2010/07/14
- [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage, Sébastien Vauban, 2010/07/14
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage, Carsten Dominik, 2010/07/14
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage, Erik Butz, 2010/07/14
- [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage, Bernt Hansen, 2010/07/14
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage, Nick Dokos, 2010/07/14
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage, Erik Butz, 2010/07/15
- Re: [Orgmode] Re: \nbsp usage,
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