[xep-support] Support of special types of spaces

Carlos Villegas cav at uniscope.jp
Wed Oct 19 07:54:42 PDT 2005


Broberg, Mats wrote:
> David Tolpin wrote:
>>There are no fixed spaces in fonts.
> 
> 
> Sure there are. For example, take a look at Arial Unicode MS, which has
> a full range of fixed spaces. Also, if you use a font that does not have
> a fixed space at the respective Unicode point you usually use Arial
> Unicode MS as a fallback font that takes care of the fixed space.

I think you don't even need to fall back to another font, most if not 
all those special spaces are defined in terms of em's or the regular 
space, which at least all fonts include. So it's possible for the 
formatter to compute them if not present.

Carlos
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