Alexander,
Would it be possible to update XEP so that it preserves the whitespaces
and outputs them at their correct widths?Typographic spaces are such a
fundamental feature of good typograpphy that I think you should
seriously consider this.
Best regards,
Mats Broberg
Technical Documentation Manager
www.flirthermography.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com
> [mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Peshkov
> Sent: den 17 oktober 2005 15:42
> To: Jan Tosovsky
> Subject: Re: [xep-support] Support of special types of spaces
>
> Hello Jan,
>
> XEP performs space normalization as prescribed by XSL-FO
> specification, please refer to section 7.15.8. "white-space-treatment"
> of XSL-FO 1.0 spec.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander Peshkov
> mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
> RenderX
>
> JT> Typography knows several types of spaces, each for different
> JT> purpose. Xep supports standard or non breaking space today only.
> JT> Other spaces are ignored, replaced by standard space or
> unknown char
> JT> is used instead. I don't know how widely such feature is
> supported
> JT> by other FO processors (I do not use them), but it would be nice.
> JT> Next entities were taken from DocBook DTD (iso-pub.ent):
> JT> <!ENTITY emsp " "> <!-- EM SPACE -->
> JT> <!ENTITY ensp " "> <!-- EN SPACE -->
> JT> <!ENTITY emsp13 " "> <!-- THREE-PER-EM SPACE --> <!ENTITY
> JT> emsp14 " "> <!-- FOUR-PER-EM SPACE --> <!ENTITY numsp
> JT> " "> <!-- FIGURE SPACE --> <!ENTITY puncsp
> " "> <!--
> JT> PUNCTUATION SPACE --> <!ENTITY thinsp " "> <!-- THIN SPACE
> JT> --> <!ENTITY hairsp " "> <!-- HAIR SPACE -->
>
> JT> Jan
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