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Nonbreaking space



In computing, a nonbreaking space (NBSP) is a special space (punctuation) character (computing) that prevents an automatic line break (line wrap) at its position. It is also known as a hard space or fixed space. == Uses == Here are some situations in which a nonbreaking space should be used. (Note that you will not be able to see the effects of the space unless your screen is fairly narrow.) * Compound proper names: van der Waerden * Titles: Mr. Jones * Parts of a document: Chapter 12 * Between the dots of an ellipsis: . . . * Mathematics: x² + 3 * Enumeration of cases in running text: (1) Genesis * Languages such as French language when punctuation should be preceded or followed by a space: « Arrêtez ! », dit-il. * Measurements (and other numbers with units): the 100 m dash. * Numbers over a thousand, where a space is used instead of a period or comma to separate groups of three digits: 16 384 == Encodings == * In some versions of Extended ASCII, character 255 (0xFF) serves as a nonbreaking space. * In ISO 8859-1, NBSP is 0xA0. * In Unicode, it is U+00A0 and is called the No-Break Space. * In HTML, the entity is written as   or  . * In TeX, a tilde (~) is used to denote the hard space. Word processors may use different methods to enter a nonbreaking space on the Computer keyboard and store it in different ways internally. For example, the standard shortcut (computers) in Microsoft Word is the CTRL+SHIFT+SPACE combination. In OpenOffice.org, the shortcut is CTRL+SPACE. Control characters

Nonbreaking space



==Move== Move to non-breaking space. * I've never seen ''nonbreaking'' before; it always has a hyphen. *''Nonbreaking'' is clearly just a syntatical compound as opposed to a lexical item in its own right. * The prefix ''non-'' generally takes a hyphen. * Google hits for ''non-breaking'' beat those for ''nonbreaking'' by 114'000 to 14'500 --User:Joeblakesley user_talk:joeblakesley Special:Contributions/joeblakesley 20:13, 2005 May 20 (UTC)


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Words begining with Nonbreaking_space:

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