[xep-support] Support of special types of spaces

[Broberg, Mats]

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 at renderx.com 
> [mailto:owner-xep-support at 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 at 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   "&#x2003;"> <!-- EM SPACE -->
> JT> <!ENTITY ensp   "&#x2002;"> <!-- EN SPACE -->
> JT> <!ENTITY emsp13 "&#x2004;"> <!-- THREE-PER-EM SPACE --> <!ENTITY 
> JT> emsp14 "&#x2005;"> <!-- FOUR-PER-EM SPACE --> <!ENTITY numsp  
> JT> "&#x2007;"> <!-- FIGURE SPACE --> <!ENTITY puncsp 
> "&#x2008;"> <!-- 
> JT> PUNCTUATION SPACE --> <!ENTITY thinsp "&#x2009;"> <!-- THIN SPACE 
> JT> --> <!ENTITY hairsp "&#x200A;"> <!-- HAIR SPACE -->
> 
> JT> Jan

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