[xep-support] preventing line breaks before punctuation

[Geoff Levner]

On 30 Oct 2006, at 23:34, David Tolpin wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:08:09 +0400, Geoff Levner <geoff at n- 
> generate.com> wrote:
>
>> That wouldn't prevent XEP from putting the colon (or semicolon, or
>> question mark, or whatever) on a new line, would it?
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> it will, unless there is a space. If you replace the space with an  
> attribute, it is not split.
>

French users will always enter a space before the punctuation mark.   
So we still need a magical way of removing or replacing all the  
preceding white space, if that white space is in the same block, and  
even if there is XML markup between the end of the previous word and  
the punctuation.  This is difficult to do with XSLT.

I suspect it would be easier to implement in XEP's line breaking  
mechanism, when the XML has already been parsed, the superfluous  
white space has been removed, and the text has been broken into  
blocks.  All you need to do at that point is prevent the insertion of  
a line break before the punctuation mark.

Geoff
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