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Re: [zzdev] java.text.BreakIterator
- To: Benjamin Fallenstein <b.fallenstein@xxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [zzdev] java.text.BreakIterator
- From: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:05:35 +0200 (EET)
- Cc: Tuomas Lukka <lukka@xxxxxxxxxx>, ZZ Development <zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx>
- In-reply-to: <3A1C18FA.EC0E9079@xxxxxx>
> > The idea of Nile is that it's structured enough so that you won't actually
> > need two spaces anywhere. Where would you want to use two spaces as two
> > spaces?
>
> In natural language text, everywhere where I want a bigger space than a
> space. Well, ok, you can do that with markup, and that'd even make more
> sense as it can be parallel; but remember to make it easy to use :)
Where exactly is that? And isn't that what hyphens and em and en dashes
are for?
Tuomas