svn commit: r42201 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/docbook-markup

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> I have done my share of fitting relatively large font text into a small space 
> and trying to get the wrapping to look nice; with a nbsp there will almost 
> certainly be some font size+page width combinations that look bad.
>
> We should probably discuss and decide one way or the other and actually put 
> it in the word list, so we remember for next time.  I actually don't have 
> strong feelings either way.

"Ports Collection" is there now.  Or do you mean nbsp in general?  I 
think the justification for using in "&os; 9.2" is that the version 
number is so narrow on its own that it would simply look bad if wrapped 
to the beginning of a line.  That's a guess, I don't recall any explicit 
justification.  As Gabor pointed out, it may not work or may even be 
contrary to what is desirable in translations.

> I went back through the history of this file, and at least one instance was 
> added in r33364 by pgj (cc'd), with review by gabor@, even!  That was back in 
> Dec 2008, so changing our minds now would not be terrible, if we want to.
>
> Does anyone want to argue for keeping the nbsp?

For "FreeBSD 9.2", numbers and units like "8 GB", and guibutton uses, I 
think using nbsp is probably okay.  For "Ports Collection" or other 
instances of multiple full words, I can't think of a compelling reason 
to use it.