Re: [xep-support] keep together/text fitting question

From: timf@learningtree.com
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 10:06:35 PDT

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    John, Nikolai,

    Thanks for the options. The non-breaking space did the job and will
    probably be the best way for us. I forgot to mention the text is in
    French, and it is necessary to put the space before all punctuation at the
    end of sentences. The trick will be getting the editors to remember to
    always put the non-breaking space in.

    Tim Frichtel

    "Nikolai Grigoriev" <grig@renderx.com>
    Sent by: owner-xep-support@renderx.com
    08/20/2003 04:45 AM
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    > the traditional way to do this is to use a non-breaking space
    > instead of a white space. Depending on your encoding, you
    > may need to use an entity reference for the character. In
    > Unicode the reference is &#160; I haven't tried this in XEP,

    It works, and seems to be the easiest solution.

    Just for completeness, let me mention a couple of others:

    1) Use a space-filled leader instead of a space character:

         Where is the text<fo:leader leader-length="0.5em">?

    This is equivalent to the NBSP solution; it has a disadvantage
    of greater verbosity but lets you control the distance from the
    text to the question mark in a precise manner.

    2) Add some padding before the question mark:

         Where is the text<fo:inline padding-left="0.5em">?</fo:inline>

    Same advantages/disadvantages. This one is natural if your
    question mark should be made more visible to the Marketing:

      Where is the text<fo:inline padding-left="6pt" color="red"
                            font="16pt bold Impact">?</fo:inline>

    Best regards,
    Nikolai Grigoriev
    RenderX

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