Re: DOCBOOK: Non breaking spaces or "ties"?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Robert Withrow <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com> was heard to say:
| How does one encode a non-breaking space (called a "tie"
| in the TeX world)?  In other words, if I enter the text 
| "Mr. Jones", I never want the line to break between
| the "Mr." and the "Jones".  

Mr.&nbsp;Jones will do it; Mr.&#160;Jones if you don't have nbsp
defined.

| Likewise, how do I encode words to prevent hyphenation?
| Like, my name, which I *never* want hyphenated!  ;-)

Depends on your formatter.

| [Actually, I'm curious what ambitions DocBook has toward
| high-quality typesetting, where considerations like the above
| come into play...]

Again, that depends on your formatter. DocBook is about content,
not presentation.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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