On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 05:24:51PM +0100, Alan Braslau wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:23:28PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
indeed, and it's a bonus that ~ == nobreakspace (although I can imagine that we'd get rid of it) but defining other macros in terms of active characters is a bad idea
(in fact one can use the unicode nbsp character)
I have always liked this TeX active character (~).
As information for users of X11: setxkbmap -option nbsp:level2 (and the equivalent in "xorg.conf" or "etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-init.fdi") gives nbsp as shift+space.
On the subject of unicode characters, I just discovered the ":dig" command (diagraphs) under my favorite editor "vim"!
Follow-up: :se list lcs=nbsp:~ makes me feel right at home with my traditional TeX usage... Alan