Re: generated non-breaking space

[Daniel Speck <dspeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Horst Kucharczyk wrote:

> At 12:24 16/12/97 +0000, you wrote:
> >In a more general way: how does one append/prepend glyphs to strings that
> >are produced?
>
> It seems to have been a simple problem. With the answer of Frank Christoph
> it was easily solved
>         (literal "\U-00A0;") does the trick
>
> but     (literal " ") still gives the error        ' general entity "nbsp" not
> defined and no default entity'
> I would like to know why.

Remember that DSSSL specifications are SGML documents. The   is being interpreted
relative to the DSSSL style sheet DTD. To get the required glyph you should use the
DSSSL expression language \charname; syntax in the string literal, e.g.,(literal
"\no-break-space;")

For a list of the characters recognized by Jade see the following web page:
http://www.thomtech.com/~dspeck/jade/

-dan

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