Re: [Groff] Status of the portability work, and plans for the future

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > Both `\<SP>' and `\~' (and \0) are equivalent to &nbsp;
> 
> But they're different in that "\~" stretches while "\<SP>"
> doesn't, right?

Yes, but viewed from the input encoding side, they are completely
identical.

> I have observed problems in some environments with display of lines
> containing "\~" (which is why the DocBook manpages stylesheet
> outputs "\<SP>" instead).

Details, please.

> [...] text is adjusted only to the left margin (because IMHO it's
> easier to read in console output than text adjusted to both margins
> and hyphenated).

This is really a matter of taste.  BTW, avoiding any hyphenation with
ragged-right output looks really bad since the line lengths can differ
too much.


    Werner