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<h3 class="section">15.6 <code>@tie{}</code>: Inserting an Unbreakable Space</h3>

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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:

<pre class="example">     @TeX{} was written by Donald E.@tie{}Knuth.
</pre>
  <p class="noindent">produces:

<pre class="display">     TeX was written by Donald E.&nbsp;Knuth.
</pre>
  <p>There are two important differences between <code>@tie{}</code> and
<code>@w{&nbsp;<!-- /@w -->}</code>:

     <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{&nbsp;<!-- /@w -->}</code> will not vary.

     <li><code>@tie{}</code> allows hyphenation of the surrounding words, while
<code>@w{&nbsp;<!-- /@w -->}</code> inhibits hyphenation of those words (for TeXnical
reasons, namely that it produces an &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">\hbox</span></samp>&rsquo;).

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