Non-breaking space unavailable between initials and names

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  • LiborA
    @Rintze: In the Czech is the same situation as in Russian, all the parts should "stay together" (on another site it concludes, that non-breaking spaces for "initialize with" is necessary for Czech too)
  • RintzeRintze
    Oh, and I forgot to ask:

    * does anybody here know about any requirements for specific types of non-breaking spaces? E.g. apart from the regular non-breaking space, there is also a narrow non-breaking space.
    * I assume we'd want to prevent line breaks on hyphens as well? (e.g. in names like "J.-L. Picard" or "Jean-Luc Picard", and "Maria Jansen-Steen")
  • adamsmith
    narrow non-breaking spaces aren't terribly well supported across fonts. I'd rather we stay away from them.
  • potamos
    @Rintze
    1. I guess diff types of spaces (incl. non-breakings) matter in some special expressions, like some formulas. And it can be solved directly in filling the fields (smth. like ALT+0000)
    2. Yes! How could I miss that. Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    same issue with non-breaking hyphens -- font support is atrocious.
    (you can check your local fonts here: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/fontlist.htm?text=%E2%80%91+-+NON-BREAKING+HYPHEN+%28U%2B2011%29 )
  • fbennett
    @adamsmith: Is it okay to retain these non-breaking elements when present in the style? I'd rather not implicitly clobber them in the processor, since there seems to be a demand for them in some contexts.
  • adamsmith
    Absolutely, yes. Leave them alone in the processor so people can customize. I just would like to avoid them inside official styles.

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