[XeTeX] Whitespace in input

[Keith J. Schultz]

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.