Re[2]: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels)

2004-04-03 Thread Alexander Savenkov
Alexander Savenkov suggested: Why not? I think Peter needs a good book on typesetting to find out what is inserted inserted between Louis and XIV. In this case IIRC there should be the following sequence: Louis,ZWNBSP,SP,ZWNBSP,XIV. Kenneth Whistler replied: Uh, no. ZWNBSP, SPACE, ZWNBSP

Re[2]: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels)

2004-04-02 Thread Alexander Savenkov
Hello, and sorry for the late response. 2004-04-01T05:41:02+03:00 fantasai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, as Ken has just clarified, with NBSP Louis' neck may be stretched rather uncomfortably, if not cut completely. Here is what I don't want to see (fixed width font required): Louis XVI

Re[2]: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels)

2004-04-02 Thread Alexander Savenkov
Hello, sorry for the late response. 2004-04-01T03:47:40+03:00 Kenneth Whistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other possible approaches that any industrial-strength typesetting program ought to provide: ... The point is that looking to encode a special character in Unicode for every distinct

Re: Re[2]: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels)

2004-04-02 Thread D. Starner
It only affects its (visual) aesthetic quality. That is arguable. An aural user agent could pronounce 1, 2, 3 a bit different from 1, 2, 3 if there is a (say) thin space between the digits in the latter case. It could pronounce it quicker, for example. And it could read it as thin

Re[2]: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels)

2004-04-02 Thread Asmus Freytag
Somebody wrote: non-breaking and non-stretching are presentational properties, not semantic ones. They don't change the meaning of the space: it's still just a space, not a hyphen or the letter g. They don't affect non-visual media; we don't break lines in spoken speech. Louis XVI is