Ah, that is bad. I think we should revert for now. I will put \:nbsp back.

thanks. we'll see.

well, \<space> being an unbreakable space is just plain wrong. And multiple \<space> being preserved at line breaks (which I think happens now with nbsp?) is also wrong.

So I'd like to try the enspace thing. Agreed it is a big change that might cause problems, but I think it's worth a try. We can always revert it and/or make an option if we need to.

wdyt? thanks as always. -k

how about some kind of css? is the normal interword space for the current font somehow accessible, the way it should be?

allowing line breaks would be an improvement, at least. an en space would generally be a little too wide, but the line breaks seem more important.

what happens with multiple enspaces in a row? do they disappear at the break, or just randomly get assigned to one line or the other?

and, how about &nbsp;<wbr>? i would expect those spaces would not disappear if the line break is taken, though.

This exact question was asked here with no good answer that i can see:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/605360

Sigh. Thanks for considering the question.

oh yeah, collapsing multiple. Hmm.

Is there really no way to output a normal, breakable, interword space other than a literal " " character in html/css? It seems so basic.

How about outputting <span> </span>, so that it does not collapse if there is more than one?

as you say, it's not a solution to mess up verbatim :).

Hi Michal - It seems \<space> (or \<newline>, etc.) generates a no-break space. This seems wrong to me. The meaning in TeX is (as you know :) a regular (breakable) space. Does this seem feasible to change to you?

Input:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}\thispagestyle{empty}
foo\ bar
\end{document}

Process: htlatex foo.tex "xhtml,html5"

Output (boilerplate omitted):
foo&#x00A0;bar

(or the Unicode equivalent 0302 0240, given "-cunihtf -utf8".)

Thanks,
Karl