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On 06/03/17 21:24, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 14:11 +0000, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex > gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Over the weekend Ive been writing a whitespace normalization >> stylesheet > > Sounds like you could wrestle a Balisage paper out of this, if you're > willing to travel to the USA.... The topic is certainly interesting. The whole white-space thang continues to cause users problems, and this is just one of several issues. Great to see it being tackled like this. > A related issue is moving punctuation out of nested elements. A related one that recurs in tech doc aimed at reuse is the application of terminal punctuation in list items. Conventionally, items end with a semicolon except for the final one which ends with a fullpoint. But for the content to be reusable without manual editing, the punctuation is often generated by the processing application (eg XSLT), so writers and editors may have the convention of not adding any whan writing. Long items, though, may have their own integral punctuation (eg terminating fullpoint) for other reasons, so any detection routine needs to look at the final non-whitespace character and preserve it if it is punctuation, otherwise apply the relevant generated punctuation (or whatever the business rules say increasingly I see short list items left without any terminating punctuation). Lots of these bobbles... ///Peter
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