Sunday, January 20, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH> At 10:43 PM 1/17/2002 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>this is another request from it.comp.software.tex: reimplementing
HH> on how many lists are you ?
Ehm ... many ;-)
Ok, compt.text.tex (the international TeX newsgroup),
it.comp.software.tex (the Italian TeX newsgroup), this list, the
list of the ConTeXt documentation project, the list of the
informal Italian TeX group Gilda/Guilda, and so on and so forth
...
>>xspace. By itself the thing is pretty easy, you just need the
>>code:
>>
>>\catcode`\@=11
>>\protected\def\xspace{\futurelet\@let@token\@xspace}
>>\def\@xspace{%
HH> this should be configurable so i would opt for another solution; also, it
HH> should be nillable;
HH> so, before i cook up the solution (using named glyphs btw) i want to know
HH> if this is the same for all languages, when it should be on / off etc
Now this is something I had never though about. Well, I think the
list is the same for all languages, and that it should always be
on (can't think of an occasion when I would want it to be off ...)
OTOH the possibility to add more tokens to the list of tokens that
don't require a space is a good idea.
>>so the problem is rather on how to integrate this with the rest of
>>ConTeXt: there are some features of ConTeXt (e.g. logos,
>>abbreviations) for which obeying spaces should be an option. Right
>>now, you have to do something like:
>>
>>\logo[tempTEX]{\TeX}
>>\def\TEX{\tempTEX\xspace}
>>
>>to achieve the same result.
>>
>>Any comments?
HH> it should hook into processsynonym but in such a way that it does not break
HH> other code because synonyms are used (here) for more purposes then you want
HH> to know.
;-)
Well, using features for what they weren't originally intended for
is *baaaaaad* ;-)
But more seriously: can't you just set up those "other" uses so as
not to use xspace?
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
