> > Both `\<SP>' and `\~' (and \0) are equivalent to
>
> But they're different in that "\~" stretches while "\<SP>"
> doesn't, right?
Yes, but viewed from the input encoding side, they are completely
identical.
> I have observed problems in some environments with display of lines
> containing "\~" (which is why the DocBook manpages stylesheet
> outputs "\<SP>" instead).
Details, please.
> [...] text is adjusted only to the left margin (because IMHO it's
> easier to read in console output than text adjusted to both margins
> and hyphenated).
This is really a matter of taste. BTW, avoiding any hyphenation with
ragged-right output looks really bad since the line lengths can differ
too much.
Werner
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