Re: luatex feature question/request

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>>                                                but if we support such a 
>> thing, we need a better specification; there are probably more space 
>> related chars that needs treatment then
> 
>   There's not much to it, actually.  There are some space characters in
> Unicode, and we should handle them as much Unicode-compliantly as
> possible; and there are some particular typographic conventions on top
> of that, for each language.  It's easy to come up with a simple scheme
> to support both, and I've already outlined it on a different
> mailing-list (http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2008-February/008529.html).
> The problem is to decide how much of the users' old typing habits we

this is indeed an important point ... we don't want to cripple default 
behaviour by that (we already have -- --- and such)

the problem with all these automatisms is that it then becomes 
impossible to do something verbatim, i.e bypass those mechamisms

> want to take in account (and, Olivier, another message by me in the same
> thread addresses the exact same issues you were raising a few days ago:
> http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2008-February/008533.html).


>   I can discuss that with you at BachoTeX, Hans.  It's best done around
> a beer or two, anyway ;-)

sure, enough beer at bachotek anyway ...

Hans

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