Re: SLRTR 000000: ZWJ in Sphinx
Mark Bourne <[email protected]>
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Stefan Ram wrote: > The Use of the U+200D "ZERO WIDTH JOINER" (ZWJ) Character in > reStructuredText Input for "Sphinx" > (Technical Report SLRTR 000000) > > (This technical report was prepared by the author during his spare > time.) > > Stefan Ram > 2025 > > Abstract - The character U+200D "ZERO WIDTH JOINER" (ZWJ) may be > employed in inputs written in the "reStructuredText" (rst) markup > notation for the software documentation tool "Sphinx" in order to permit > the inclusion of special characters within embedded code segments. > To ensure that Sphinx's automatic line breaking continues to function > correctly, two minor adjustments to Sphinx are required. Does using U+2060 "WORD JOINER" instead avoid the need to modify Sphinx? Just going by the description at <https://unicode-explorer.com/c/2060>, which describes it as "a zero width non-breaking space", that seems to be what you want. I'm not sure from the description of U+200D whether that one's supposed to allow breaking, but U+2060 sounds like it definitely shouldn't allow breaking ;). -- Mark.