[XeTeX] STFangsong punctuation kerning

[Will Robertson]

On 14/06/2006, at 18:07 , Jonathan Kew wrote:

>> Could a
>> "space between ideographs" mapping help out here?
>
> ....no, because the "space" is not a character that will ever be seen
> by the font mapping. By the time strings of text are run through the
> font mapping, the space (or newline) has become interword "glue" in
> TeX's current horizontal list; it's not a "text character" at all.

Oh, of course!
How silly of me to forget that TeX has no space character.

Will