On 05/25/2010 08:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Am 25.05.2010 22:41, schrieb Richard Heck:
I think people would be happy to do *something*, but Uwe was not happy
with the proposal you made. My own view, for what it is worth, is that
the worry about line length is a bit quaint, since most editors nowadays
"soft wrap" anyway. But other people feel differently.
I was not referring to a line limit but the general problem that tth
is not able to handle valid LaTeX. We cannot change our code to suit
the needs of other programs. Our duty is to create valid LaTeX code.
What you do with the resulting LaTeX file is your decision.
You can compare this case to this: You are using Adobe's Acrobat and
created a PDF (that of course fulfills the public PDF specification).
Then you are using another program to edit this PDF and get a problem.
Who is then to blame, Acrobat or the editor program?
It's not that I don't agree. But we chop lines in weird ways in other
places to try to stay below the 80-character limit. I was assuming this
issue was for the same reason. Perhaps not.
Still, you are right: Obviously, tth should handle valid LaTeX. If
necessary, it should simply remove superfluous whitespace before it gets
to work.
Richard
