Re: Offset MP text with font change

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 4/29/2013 12:42 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
> Hi Marco, All,
>
> agreed you can avoid the spaces by putting the usetypescript in the "preamble",
> but should not the loading of a typescript not bleed any spaces!

it's not the typescript that has the space but the file ... a typescript 
file can have more than typescripts like definitions, documentation, etc.

In the past, one *always* had to load a typescript file explicitly but 
at some point - out of convenience - the \setupbodyfont mechanism has 
been extended to automatically load a typescriptfile with the same name 
as the requested bodyfont. So, it's the price paid for convenience. And, 
in most cases a bodyfont is not initialized in a \hbox.

> regards
> 	Keith.
>
> Am 28.04.2013 um 22:03 schrieb Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>:
>
>> On 2013–04–28 Keith J. Schultz wrote:
>>
>>> can someone explain to me why loading a file/typescript is
>>> producing spaces????
>>
>> The typescripts themselves are full of spaces and new lines. And you
>> really want those spaces for readability. TeX usually squashes
>> multiple spaces into one, but spaces still matter in many
>> circumstances, e.g. within an \hbox.
>>
>>> If the code that does load the file/s produced spaces for
>>> debugging purposes that is fine, but should not they actually
>>> going somewhere else?
>>
>> There's no code that produces spaces. The spaces are in the
>> typescript file.
>>
>>> Personally, I find it a bug if loading fonts or other files
>>> produces extraneous  characters!
>>
>> This is usually not a problem, since typescripts are loaded in the
>> setup area. Even when loaded within the text area the spaces don't
>> cause problems. Loading an entire file within a box, like I did in
>> the example, is an unusual edge-case and there's a simple
>> workaround, see Wolfgangs answer.
>>
>> Except if there's an easy fix for that, I'm personally fine knowing
>> where the spaces are coming from and how to prevent them, which I do
>> now.
>>
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