[xep-support] Stretchable no break space

[Jim Melton]

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After spending some time thinking about the reason that you originally made 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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