[texhax] [tex-live] Fwd: [OS X TeX] Beamer in MacTeX 2009 vs. 2010

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Heiko Oberdiek wrote:

> I have added sanity checks for some options that directly write
> PDF code. For example:
>    \usepackage[pdfborder=0 0 0]{hyperref}
> would end up as "000" in the PDF file, because LaTeX
> strips spaces.

Is this really the case, Heiko ?  (I ask as someone who
knows almost nothing about the internals of LaTeX).  For
arbitrary \command [optional parameters] {mandatory
parameters}, does LaTeX always remove all spaces from
[optional parameters] before passing them on ?

Philip Taylor