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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>@tie (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="@tie (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="@tie (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Breaks.html" rel="up" title="Breaks"> <link href="_0040sp.html" rel="next" title="@sp"> <link href="_0040w.html" rel="prev" title="@w"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="g_t_0040tie"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="_0040sp.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@sp</code> <var>n</var>: Insert Blank Lines</a>, Previous: <a href="_0040w.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><code>@w</code>{<var>text</var>}: Prevent Line Breaks</a>, Up: <a href="Breaks.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Forcing and Preventing Breaks</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="g_t_0040tie_007b_007d_003a-Inserting-an-Unbreakable-Space"></span><h3 class="section">12.6 <code>@tie{}</code>: Inserting an Unbreakable Space</h3> <span id="tie"></span><span id="index-tie-_0028unbreakable-interword-space_0029"></span> <span id="index-Tied-space"></span> <span id="index-Non_002dbreakable-space_002c-variable"></span> <span id="index-Unbreakable-space_002c-variable"></span> <p>The <code>@tie{}</code> command produces a normal interword space at which a line break may not occur. Always write it with following (empty) braces, as usual for commands used within a paragraph. Here’s an example: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">@TeX{} was written by Donald E.@tie{}Knuth. </pre></div> <p>produces: </p> <div class="display"> <pre class="display">TeX was written by Donald E. Knuth. </pre></div> <p>There are two important differences between <code>@tie{}</code> and <code>@w{ <!-- /@w -->}</code>: </p> <ul> <li> The space produced by <code>@tie{}</code> will stretch and shrink slightly along with the normal interword spaces in the paragraph; the space produced by <code>@w{ <!-- /@w -->}</code> will not vary. </li><li> <code>@tie{}</code> allows hyphenation of the surrounding words, while <code>@w{ <!-- /@w -->}</code> inhibits hyphenation of those words (for TeXnical reasons, namely that it produces an ‘<samp>\hbox</samp>’). </li></ul> </div> </body> </html>