Alan BRASLAU wrote:
On Sunday 07 June 2009 14:10:10 Hans Hagen wrote:
Alan BRASLAU wrote:
On Sunday 07 June 2009 13:12:11 Hans Hagen wrote:
Peter Münster wrote:
Should this work, or should we rather use "~" and "\," as in the past? repaired in next beta (was unwanted side effect of optimization) "~", by the way, appears not to be respected in math mode; example:
\starttext $3\times 10^{-9}~\text{m}$
$3\times 10^{-9}\,\text{m}$ \stoptext no surprise, as math has its own spacing model so it all depends on the definitions; i'm not even sure if we shoule support an active ~ in math mode at all
I do not have any strong feelings about this, but do believe that "~" has always provided an unbreakable white space in TeX, both in text and math mode. I also feel that "~" is more readable than "\,".
The activeness of ~ isn't that important, but there really should be a non-breakable space in math mode, and an active ~ is the most logical choice because of 20 years of TeX input. You can pick something else, but it is definately needed, and it should be shorter than "\penalty10000 \ " Best wishes, Taco