[texhax] unexplained space

Philip G. Ratcliffe philip.ratcliffe at uninsubria.it
Wed May 9 09:53:49 CEST 2007


> Out of curiosity, I've always wondered whether there are any 
> circumstances where this would hurt (beyond the obvious one when a 
> newline is breaking two separate words)?

As a rule-of-thumb, if you could have tacked the next line flush, (i.e.,
remove the end-of-line and any spaces) then since a "%" effectively does
just that, there should be no problems.

> The answer's undoubtedly in The TeX Book, I know... :)

Maybe not since this is a package writers' issue.

Cheers,  Phil



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