Zdenek Wagner wrote:
The only reasonable solution seems to be the one suggested by Phil Taylor, to extend \catcode up to 255 and assign special categories to other types of characters. Thus we could say that normal space id 10, nonbreakable space is 16, thin space is 17 etc. XeTeX will then be able to treat them properly.
which may, unfortunately, then require new types of node in TeX's internal list structures ... (may, not will). ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex