On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Philip TAYLOR <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Chris Travers wrote: >> >> One other thought occurs to me. >> >> Typically in a TeX document, whitespace is not semantic. In other >> words, spaces, tabs, and carriage returns are not differentiated. If >> we are so keen on supporting a few special whitespace characters, why >> not also support tabs and make carriage returns, you know, actually >> break lines? > > It is necessary to be a /little/ careful here, > in that a certain degree of LWSP processing takes > place /before/ things reach TeX's mouth. And, of > course, \obeylines exists in order to provide a > simple way for the user to handle ends-of-line > specially. > Ok, so why don't we have a similar macro here? Something like: \obeynbsps
That would be fine with me. Best Wishes, Chris Travers -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex