Re: Punctuation spacing

[Jeff Kingston]

> The problem with this definition is that it precludes hyphenation
> of its left parameter.

Try &0.5su instead of |0.5s, and let me know how it goes.  You
might also want to replace word ";" with word 1su ";" to prevent
line breaks before the ";".

The & symbol makes the result part of the enclosing paragraph, so
it should participate in all the usual paragraph things, including
hyphenation.  The u modifier introduces an unbreakable space.

Jeff