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Re: \: re-enables hyphenation--should it?


From: Peter Schaffter
Subject: Re: \: re-enables hyphenation--should it?
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 21:56:11 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28)

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, Dave Kemper wrote:
> \& has no effect on breaking (nor is it documented to).  "Zero-width
> space" is kind of a misnomer for it, I guess.  CSTR #54 called it a
> "zero width filler character"; the term "zero-width space" for it
> seems specific to the Texinfo document.

Surely the most useful and accurate way to describe \& is "a
zero-width, non-printing character."

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Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca



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