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0120 <h3 class="section">19.7 <code>~</code></h3>
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0123 <a name="index-tie"></a>
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0125 <a name="index-space_002c-unbreakable"></a>
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0128 <p>Synopsis:
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0131 <pre class="example"><var>before</var>~<var>after</var>
0132 </pre></div>
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0134 <p>The tie character, <code>~</code>, produces a space between <var>before</var> and
0135 <var>after</var> at which the line will not be broken. By default the white
0136 space has length 3.33333pt plus 1.66666pt minus
0137 1.11111pt (see <a href="Lengths.html#Lengths">Lengths</a>).
0138 </p>
0139 <p>Here LaTeX will not break the line between the final two words.
0140 </p>
0141 <div class="example">
0142 <pre class="example">Thanks to Prof.~Lerman.
0143 </pre></div>
0144 
0145 <p>In addition, despite the period, LaTeX does not use the
0146 end-of-sentence spacing (see <a href="_005c_0040.html#g_t_005c_0040">\@</a>).
0147 </p>
0148 <p>Ties prevent the end of line separation of things where that could cause
0149 confusion. But they also reduce LaTeX&rsquo;s options when it breaks lines
0150 into paragraphs, so you can use too many. They are also matters of
0151 taste, sometimes alarmingly dogmatic taste, among readers. Nevertheless,
0152 here are some usage models, many of them from the TeXbook.
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0154 <ul>
0155 <li> Between an enumerator and its item, such as in references:
0156 <code>Chapter~12</code>, or <code>Theorem~\ref{th:Wilsons}</code>, or
0157 <code>Figure~\ref{fig:KGraph}</code>. When cases are enumerated inline:
0158 <code>(b)~Show that $f(x)$ is (1)~continuous, and (2)~bounded</code>.
0159 
0160 <a name="index-package_002c-siunitx"></a>
0161 <a name="index-siunitx-package"></a>
0162 
0163 </li><li> Between a number and its unit: <code>$745.7.8$~watts</code> (the
0164 <samp>siunitx</samp> package has a special facility for this) or
0165 <code>144~eggs</code>. This includes between a month and a date:
0166 <code>October~12</code> or <code>12~Oct</code>. In general, in any expressions where
0167 numbers and abbreviations or symbols are separated by a space:
0168 <code>AD~565</code>, or <code>2:50~pm</code>, or <code>Boeing~747</code>, or
0169 <code>268~Plains Road</code>, or <code>\$$1.4$~billion</code>.
0170 
0171 </li><li> When mathematical phrases are rendered in words: <code>equals~$n$</code>, or
0172 <code>less than~$\epsilon$</code>, or <code>given~$X$</code>, or <code>modulo~$p^e$
0173 for all large~$n$</code> (but compare <code>is~$15$</code> with <code>is $15$~times
0174 the height</code>). Between mathematical symbols in apposition with nouns:
0175 <code>dimension~$d$</code> or <code>function~$f(x)$</code> (but compare <code>with
0176 length $l$~or more</code>). When a symbol is a tightly bound object of a
0177 preposition: <code>of~$x$</code>, or <code>from $0$ to~$1$</code>, or <code>in
0178 common with~$m$</code>.
0179 
0180 </li><li> Between symbols in series: <code>$1$,~$2$, or~$3$</code> or <code>$1$,~$2$,
0181 \ldots,~$n$</code>.
0182 
0183 </li><li> Between a person&rsquo;s forenames and between multiple surnames:
0184 <code>Donald~E. Knuth</code>, or <code>Luis~I. Trabb~Pardo</code>, or
0185 <code>Charles~XII</code> (but you must give TeX places to break the line so
0186 you may do <code>Charles Louis Xavier~Joseph de~la Vall\'ee~Poussin</code>).
0187 
0188 </li><li> Before a dash: <code>pages 12~--14</code> or <code>it is~--- it must be
0189 said~--- plausible</code>.
0190 
0191 </li></ul>
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