[metapost] re: MetaPost 0.891 announcement

[Larry Siebenmann]

Hi Hans,

Concerning 5:

 LS>> Which processors were troubled by spaces in
 >> those PostScript strings; and why?

 HH> tex, since it collapses spaces into one space unless
 > catcodes are manipulated which then spoils other
 > parsing; also, since tex does not have spaces, one can
 > now easilly map the number to whatever wanted

OK, I suspected tex.  Thanks.  Superficial reading of
Postscript string syntax suggests that "\ "
in place of "\040" is a more succinct alternative
open to mp... (?) 

Cheers,

Laurent S.