[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Non-breaking space in muse?

[Michael Olson]

Ken Brown <address@hidden> writes:

>>Can you give me an example of a context there non-breaking space
>>would be useful?  The <example> tag inserts non-breaking space, and
>>is useful for displaying chunks of monospace, verbatim text, like
>>code snippets.
>>
> One example would be a reference to a course, like Math 106.  It
> looks ugly and distracts the reader if there is a line break at the
> space, so that "106" is at the beginning of a line.  A more striking
> example would be a name with initials or a title.  For instance, if
> you wrote "M. Olson" or "Mr. Olson" you wouldn't want a line break
> after the "M." or the "Mr.".

That's convincing.  I'd like to implement non-breaking space in Muse.
What sort of syntax would work well for that?  The first thing that
comes to mind for me is "~~", as in Math~~106.

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