On 2/22/19, Dale Snell <dalesnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > you should be able to do something like "mrphl\|\:blrphl" and the two words > should be separated by a thinspace that can break.
Hi Dale, Thank you for the idea. If that did work (and with limited testing I haven't been able to get it to), it would create a nonbreaking space and then a breakpoint, which would result in that space appearing at the end of the line, which would misalign the right margin in fully justified text. I'm looking for a fixed-width space that can be *replaced* by a line break (the typical behavior for a breakable space) -- that is, the space no longer appears, either at the end of the current line or the start of the next -- rather than a line break happening before or after an unpaddable space, as would happen with \:\| or \|\:. On 2/26/19, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > I wonder if the `\:' looks like it is at the start of the word `blrphl', > in your example, and thus says to not hyphenate `blrphl' rather than > provide a break point for hyphenating `mrphl\|blrphl'. I'm not sure I follow your point. A \: before a word does not have the same meaning as a \% before a word; the \: escape is (according to the documentation anyway) only ever used to specify a breakpoint, and unlike \%, does not change meaning based on placement. And I confess I can't quite make out what your example is trying to illustrate. Your lines would never be broken between "d" and "e" anyway (which is clearer in the PostScript output -- where you can see the right margin -- than the -a output), so the presence or absence of the \: at this point does not affect the line breaking at all.
