On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:26:52AM +0100, Luca Furini wrote: > > In order to preserve all spaces, we could use the elements that are now > generated for a nbsp: > box w=0 > penalty inf > glue (elastic or not, according to the alignment) > > They are not suppressed and they do not allow a break, so I think they > should fit quite well this situation too, when white-space-treatment = > "preserve" and wrap-option="no-wrap".
If wrap-option="no-wrap", cannot we somehow avoid the whole linebreak calculation? Each line is a Knuth paragraph and creates a single line. > If wrap-option="wrap", however, we must add some penalties in order to > allow a break between spaces; we must be careful, as if there are 3 spaces > between two words, there are 4 possible breaks (ignoring, at the moment, > unicode breaking rules), so we just cannot add a penalty before or after > the other elements. Isn't it so that in the case of white-space-treatment="preserve" the line breaks are between the spaces instead of on them? Then for a___b, where an underscore indicates a space, I would construct box(a) p box(0) p(inf) glue p box(0) p(inf) glue p box(0) p(inf) glue p box(b) with possible line breaks at the p. Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
