Re: non-break-space in tutorial

[Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>]

On 6/8/05, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
> > 2) The original treatment of NBSP -- displaying it like a normal
> > escape character, with backslash prefix and in the normal escape
> > character face -- is IMO better than your method, so _at the least_ it
> > should be user selectable, but it seems that your patch makes this
> > impossible.  [And I personally think it should be the default.]
> 
> I've seen various texts with a lot of non-breaking spaces.
> Additional backslashes render such texts almost unreadable.

This is your _opinion_, which I disagree with.  I think dIsplaying
them with a modified background, if anything, looks worse, and is more
confusing to users than making them look like an "escape character",
which is already a familiar concept.

In your post, you said you had "taken everybody's opinion into
account", which is clearly not true.  Despite the initial objections
to your proposed changes, you simply went ahead and made them anyway.

-Miles
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