On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Philip TAYLOR <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Chris Travers wrote: > >> Ok, so why don't we have a similar macro here? Something like: >> \obeynbsps > > See above : there are /some/ things that TeX does that > transcend category codes (which are the basis for \obeylines); > in particular [1] : > > "$$ TeX deletes any <space> characters (number 32)" that occur > at the right end of an input line" > > These are ASCII 32s, not \catcode 10s, and XeTeX itself would > require modification if you also wanted XeTeX to delete any > U+2009s, U+202fs, ... in the same way that it deletes normal > spaces. This is without the aegis of \obeynbsp, which would > kick in long after this action has been irrevocably completed. > But what's the point of putting non-breaking spaces between a word and the end of a line? or for that matter what if I alternate spaces and special unicode spaces? Do I get a word space for each of them?
I think one of the key strengths of TeX is that it can be edited gracefully by ANY basic text editor. I would hate for that to be lost. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
