Me, personally, I always enjoy doing lots of extra keystrokes
and effort, to fix something that is not really a problem.
Word Processors often have non breaking spaces, but does your
email editor, or this wiki's web editor, have them? Any idea
how many mouse strokes will be required to insert one?
For me the potential for the wrapping of the unit onto a new
line by some automatic line wrapper, forbids the use of a space
before a unit. A non breaking space is a complication that I am
just not going to indulge.
Standards organizations always seem to have a few contributors
whose sole purpose seems to be to hobble those that do the real
work in the field being standardized. (Anyone remember ANSI C
and trigraphs? Anyone ever use trigraphs?)
Max Planck once opined:
"Science makes progress funeral by funeral: the old are
never converted by the new doctrines, they simply are
replaced by a new generation."
I'm going to do that.
-Chuck Harris
On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 00:05:03 +0100 "Carsten Bormann"
<cabocabo@...> wrote:
On 2022-01-08, at 23:11, Dave McGuire <mcguire@...> wrote:
The big issues come when line wrapping splits the units from their
quantities. I can't stand that.
(The non-breaking space U+00A0 was invented for avoiding such line
breaks. As with ? and ¦¸, that is easier to type on some platforms
than on others. Unfortunately, my mail composer doesn¡¯t seem to like
it at all.)
Gr¨¹?e, Carsten
