Re: [xep-support] Stretchable no break space

From: Jim Melton (jim.melton@acm.org)
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 15:29:27 PDT

  • Next message: David Tolpin: "Re: [xep-support] Stretchable no break space"

    David,

    After spending some time thinking about the reason that you originally made
    no-break spaces non-stretchy, I think that the users in question were
    mis-using the character. Using no-break space for forced indenting is
    surely not what was intended either by the definers of ISO 8859-1 nor, by
    extension, the Unicode Technical Committee, nor (I think) by the XSL FO
    designers. There are more appropriate ways to accomplish the task (such as
    using a combination of white-space-treatment="preserve",
    linefeed-treatment="preserve", and white-space-collapse="false" in XSL FO,
    coupled with ordinary #x20 spaces).

    I encourage you to give serious consideration to Jirka's request to make
    #xA0 an otherwise-ordinary space that does not allow linebreaking on either
    side of it.

    Hope this helps,
        Jim

    At 03:29 PM 9/15/2004 Wednesday, David Tolpin wrote:
    > > If my interperation of XSL-FO is correct I would appreciate fix in XEP.
    >
    >Jirka,
    >
    >I'll think about it. I'm inclined to revert the change (I too think
    >that a0 should be treated as a space except that it does not allow
    >line breaks around), but we must check everything.
    >
    >David
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