Hello, 

I am not sure whether this is the best place to present my question or
suggestion, so please feel free to tell me if it is not: 

In my xml-documents (unstructured text) I have nested elements which result
in nice PDFs, where the text flow is always correctly separated by single
spaces thanks to whitespace normalization. 

Now, for some of these nested elements I have to create special whitespace
(like non-breaking small spaces), so I do not need the whitespace from the
normalization. In other words: Instead of "text_text-from-element_text"
(with _ for normal spaces between the elements), I want
"text*text-from-element_text" (with * for non breaking whitespaces) but get
"text_*text-from-element_text". 

In the beginning I thought of "cleaning up" the FO-document after a first
transformation from XML to FO, but on the other hand I think that it is
anyway unlogical to normalize whitepace but exclude the typographical
whitespaces (or spaces) when creating a document for print. 

So I suggest to integrate a feature in the FOP to clean up double spaces
that come into being because for typography one needs to work with several
space characters. 

May be the FO to PDF stage is not the right place?

Best and thanks like always, 
Maria
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