On 11/14/2011 5:38 AM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
2011/11/14 Petr Tomasek<toma...@etf.cuni.cz>:
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 06:25:08PM +0200, Tobias Schoel wrote:
Am 13.11.2011 18:16, schrieb Philip TAYLOR:
Not in every case. How would you visually differentiate between all the
white space characters (space vs. non-break space, thin space (u2009)
vs. narrow no-break space (u202f), ... ) such that the text remains
readable?
Using different color.
You live in a perfect world where you can do everything with a single
editor using nice GUI. The world is not yet that perfect.
I'm going to repeat myself, or maybe if I shout I'll be heard?
We are not (at least I am not) suggesting that everyone must use the
Unicode non-breaking space character, or etc. What we *are* suggesting
is that in Xe(La)Tex, we be *allowed* to use those characters, and that
they have their Unicode-defined semantics, to the extent that makes
sense in XeTeX. If because of your editor you prefer to use a '~' in
your XeTeX files, that's fine, we won't stop you.
If some day you decide to edit my XeLaTeX files, you're welcome to do
so, just beware of the U+00A0 NBSP characters...not to mention the
Arabic block characters (including the ones used for Urdu and Pashto),
and the Bengali block characters, and the Thaana block, and Latin
supplement blocks, and IPA, and maybe the Devanagari block characters,
and... All of which will show up as squares or something in your
editor, if you don't have a suitable font; and all of which--control
characters or not--*could* be represented in 8-bit or even 7-bit
encodings, using macros or some such. The reason for using XeTeX is so
I don't *have* to use macros or some funky abbreviation to represent them.
Summary: if XeTeX supports Unicode, then let it support Unicode.
--
Mike Maxwell
maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu
"My definition of an interesting universe is
one that has the capacity to study itself."
--Stephen Eastmond
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