Re: pdfeTeX error when compiling lilypond.texi with accents in node names

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 06:28:43PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     breakable in Opera
> 
> Can anyone check the breakability of   in Explorer?

I've checked it on IE version 6, and besides being breakable, it also
printed a rectangular box in place of  .

>     unbreakable space in HTML is to "use no-break spaces and use some
>     formatting techniques, such as the CSS word-spacing property, to
>     reduce the width of the spaces".  
> 
> Ugh.

The Web page I referred to said that simply saying
"<small>&nbsp;</small>" doesn't work, and suggests using constructs
like

1) mar<span style="letter-spacing:0.1em">k!</span>

2) <span style="word-spacing:-0.13em">mark&nbsp;!</span>

3) <span class="Pi">«</span>foo<span class="Pf">»</span>

   with a style sheet like

   span.Pi { margin-right: 0.1em; }
   span.Pf { margin-left: 0.1em; }

Any of these would be either difficult to implement in makinfo or
require a cludge in the Texinfo language like "@thinspaces{mark !}"
(or even worse).

However, that page is rather old (Date of creation: 2000-09-06. Last
update: 2004-11-15), so I've checked and it seems nowadays the simpler
method ("<small>&nbsp;</small>") works on Mozilla, Opera and Internet
Explorer.  It would be great if someone could test the attached file
on KDE browser (Konqueror?) and on Mac (Safari?).  If it works there,
maybe we can use it.

> Faced with the choice between a non-breaking full word space, a breaking
> thinspace, or no space at all, I'd opt for no space at all.

Looks like we'll have to do this for @thinspace in all text output,
including Unicode.  As for French punctuation space, authors can use
the trick with punctspace redefinition that Karl suggested (I'll add
it to the docs, if it's alright).

Oleg

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