Hi Philip,
We are basically are following the same lines.
TeX is foremost a layout program based standard "printers"
methology.where the space character is white space and not a glyph.
We actually, do have to differentiate between the two in discussions.
The crux of of the problem is in (Xe)TeX's parsing algorithm. I never liked it
and personally I have many problems it.
regards
Keith.
Am 17.11.2011 um 13:53 schrieb Philip TAYLOR:
>
>
> Keith J. Schultz wrote:
>>
>> Am 17.11.2011 um 11:26 schrieb Keith J. Schultz:
>>
>>> O.K.
>>>
>>> You mention in a later post that you do consider a space as a printable
>>> character.
>> This line should read as:
>> You mention in a later post that you consider a space as a
>> non-printable character.
>
> No, I don't think of it as a "character" at all, when we are talking
> about typeset output (as opposed to ASCII (or Unicode) input). Clearly
> it is a character on input, but unless it generates a glyph in the
> output stream (which TeX does not, for normal spaces) then it is not
> a character (/qua/ character) on output but rather a formatting
> instruction not dissimilar to (say) end-of-line.
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