Re: ssharp / spatium

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:54 PM 1/28/2002 +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> > >BTW: Is there a spatium (like \, in LaTeX)?
> >
> > And what is \, supposed to do? And .. is that a hack or something
> > typographically correct?
>
>It's a typographical "must", not a hack!
>It's a little unbreakable fixed-width space, about a quarter of an em; you

ok, that's not a hack, but the \, looks like one -)

>need it to organize numbers like:
>Telefon (07\,89) 6\,78\,90
>Konto 12\,345\,678
>And even between a number and a unit should be no space, but a spatium:
>123\,m -- 100\,\% -- 56\,\euro

so, it's a thinspace, well then you're already served by 
what|~|a|~|thin|~|space

Hans
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