From 2bfcee3890cc9f11758354a66e87ff026bc22e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Heinen Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:40:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a section explaining   Reviewed by: Lukasz Bojarski Approved by: murray, alex (mentor) --- .../fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml | 36 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml index be98b5d5b2..454e290dae 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-style/chapter.sgml @@ -314,6 +314,42 @@ V the second change, be sure to indicate that this is a whitespace-only change, and that the translation team can ignore it. + + + Nonbreaking space + + Avoid line breaks in places where they look ugly + or make it difficult to follow a sentence. Line breaks depend + on the width of the chosen output medium. In particular, viewing + the HTML documentation with a text browser can lead to badly + formatted paragraphs like the next one: + + Data capacity ranges from 40 MB to 15 +GB. Hardware compression … + + The general entity   prohibits + line breaks between parts belonging together. Use nonbreaking + spaces in the following places: + + + + between numbers and units: + + + + + between program names and version numbers: + + + + + between multiword names (use with caution when applying this + to more than 3-4 word names like The FreeBSD Brazilian + Portuguese Documentation Project): + + + +