[xep-support] Re: Encoding spaces at line ends and between words

[Dave Pawson]

Or the markup?
Is there space between the closing (e.g. italic) markup and the text
of the next word?
...</italic>Word  will show no space, i.e. respecting your wishes?

HTH

On 2 May 2016 at 13:14, Armin Günther <guenther at zpid.de> wrote:
> As an addition to my previous post: Perhaps this mostly is not a XEP/PDF
> problem but a problem of the respective PDF-viewer?
>
> - Armin
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there a way to control how spaces at line ends and between words with
>> different styles are encoded into PDF? There seems to be no space encoded at
>> line ends and between words with different styles (e.g.
>> bold/italics/normal). When we use PDF annotation tools on our PDFs generated
>> by XEP (or simply want to copy text from PDFs generated by XEP) words/lines
>> are concatenated as in the following example taken from a RenderX demo
>> document (http://www.renderx.com/files/demos/examples/CH11.pdf):
>>
>> Gender, in contrast, is a *social,not* a biological characteristic.
>> *Genderconsists* of *what-ever* behaviors and attitudes a group considers
>> proper for its males and females. *Conse-quently*, gender varies from one
>> society to another. Whereas *sexrefers* to male or *female,genderrefers* to
>> masculinity or femininity. In short, you inherit your sex, but you
>> *learnyour* gender as you are socialized into the behaviors and attitudes
>> your culture asserts *areappropriate* for your sex.
>> *Text copied from http://www.renderx.com/files/demos/examples/CH11.pdf
>> with *missing spaces*
>>
>> Is there a way to have real spaces encoded and not just positioning of
>> text in PDFs here? The result should look like this text:
>>
>> Gender, in contrast, is a *social, not* a biological characteristic.
>> *Gender consists* of *what- ever* behaviors and attitudes a group considers
>> proper for its males and females. *Conse- quently*, gender varies from one
>> society to another. Whereas *sex refers* to male or *female, gender refers*
>> to masculinity or femininity. In short, you inherit your sex, but you *learn
>> your* gender as you are socialized into the behaviors and attitudes your
>> culture asserts *are appropriate* for your sex.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Armin
>>
>>
>
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