At 08:19 PM 8/11/02 +0100, Matthew Woolcraft wrote: What's the reason for including a non-breaking space in the Wikipedia article? That's not snideness: it's key to the answer. In some cases, the answer is that you don't need or want one--you don't know what the viewer's browser is or how wide the window is, so there's no point trying to govern layout to that degree. If you're doing a table, we're still sorting out table markup, but it's likely to define rows and columns, not spaces. For a map or other illustration, there are better ways of handling graphics. If the space is part of a name, you can either accept that the linebreak may occur between "van" and "Gogh" in "Vincent van Gogh" (usually no big deal) or use the HTML. -- Vicki Rosenzweig vr(a)redbird.org http://www.redbird.org

Matthew Woodcraft wrote: A space between other spaces will be automatically made a non-breaking space (so if you put double or more spaces, you get them). If you want a non-breaking space between letters, you probably want to use the character entity   like in HTML: This should not break. Yes, it's ugly. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)