On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:09:56AM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:05:22AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > Well indeed. This makes me somewhat dubious that your experience is > > > relevant. I'm not anti-inset in any way where they make sense, and I > > > think the branches stuff is a great example. > > > > > > I'm somewhat bemused by your comments regarding spaces. There's a > > > massive difference between something that's ommitted from the document > > > altogether, and something that ends up being rendered as an italic space > > > or whatever. We already have DESM[1]. Why would this stop working? > > > Styles do not make this different. > > > > > > There's really two cases: > > > > > > <style>foo </style>bar > > > foo<style> bar</style> > > > > > > It's perfectly fine for us to strip these in the output (that is, styles > > > never end or begin on a space). > > > > It is not, as spaces with differnt style might show differently. In some > > "programming font" they may even print something. > > I'm not sure "might" or "may" is useful.
I'll remind you at due time. > Is there a case when something DOES do that, I've certainly alreadry seen spaces printed out like |___| (smaller of course) in some fonts. > and cannot be adequately covered by the protected space mechanism? I don't know. Andre'
