[xep-support] preventing line breaks before punctuation

[David Tolpin]

Hi Geoff,

> If the bold style stops at the end of the word, no problem.  But it  
> might include the space following the word, too.

I can only see a single case when this may happen: namely, when the  
WYSIWYG program the user employed to specify the bold face allowed him to  
select the space following the word along with the word. It is a problem  
in the program, the program must be fixed.


> Yes, the second case is the one we handle correctly now in XSLT.  The  
> first one is hard because you need to know whether or not the markup  
> separating the word and the punctuation starts a new block.

Should not be hard to know in XSL. Types of areas generated by each  
element are specified, you can use the information.

>> The French typesetting has a legacy feature. This legacy feature is  
>> easy to express in XSL FO. French users are accustomed to placing a  
>> space before the colon, a poor practice from past times. Much in the  
>> same way as first-line indents using TAB must be replaced by proper  
>> start-indent, spaces before colons in french texts must be replaced by  
>> space-start .
>
> I have to disagree with you there.  We could ask that users not enter a  
> space before colons, question marks, etc., but that would be like asking  
> them not to enter a space after a period.  People will do it anyway,  
> both out of habit and because it looks "better" in the text editor.

No, I didn't mean that should be done by insruction. It should be done by  
a program. A preprocessor that handles legacy text input habits.

David

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