From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7809 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Non breaking small space Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 08:58:20 -0400 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200205060858.20488.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020506021048.02d32cf0@remote-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398254 22517 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:37:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nigel King , Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020506021048.02d32cf0@remote-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7809 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7809 On Sunday 05 May 2002 08:11 pm, Hans Hagen wrote: > At 10:12 AM 5/2/2002 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > >10\kern.1667em GHz. > > 10 \Giga \Herz > > [given that the units module is loaded] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl > Is the units version offered by Hans breakable or non-breakable? Are there any typographic advantages to one version over the other? As has been pointed out my version with the \kern statement can be reduced to a brief macro. And my version is unbreakable. John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com