From 25ae2ba76e6b3e0d1c45d426d8ddd7d3b84a5cda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2018 13:48:41 +0200
Subject: Add "\ " escaping to specify non-ignorable space

This can used to manually align things (e.g., in synopsis) but will only
work if the entire lines are in \c{}.
---
 cli/context.cxx | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)

(limited to 'cli')

diff --git a/cli/context.cxx b/cli/context.cxx
index f54c474..d2daab4 100644
--- a/cli/context.cxx
+++ b/cli/context.cxx
@@ -437,6 +437,31 @@ format_line (output_type ot, string& r, const char* s, size_t n)
 
       switch (c)
       {
+      case ' ':
+        {
+          // Non-ignorable space.
+          //
+          switch (ot)
+          {
+          case ot_plain:
+            {
+              r += ' ';
+              break;
+            }
+          case ot_html:
+            {
+              r += "&#160;";
+              break;
+            }
+          case ot_man:
+            {
+              r += "\\ ";
+              break;
+            }
+          }
+
+          break;
+        }
       case '-':
         {
           // N-dash. If someone wants m-dash, can use \-- with \-{}- as
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