[XeTeX] XeTeXcharclass inserts spaces

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:26:44 +0100 schrieb Jonathan Kew:


>> In the following document I get spaces between the "a" and the "b",  
>> but
>> not between "d" and "b". Bug or feature?
> 
> Feature, not bug, I believe.
> 
> I think you're seeing the effects of the default classes and interchar  
> toks assignments that are found at the end of unicode-letters.tex, 

I see. Wouldn't it be senseful to have a "class already used?" command
or even better if one could allocate a new class like a new counter?
This would reduce the danger to use classes already in use by another
package. And it would inforce more natural names for the classes. 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer