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Re: Normalizing spaces?
I asked this question on the DSSSList, and Daniel Speck
<dspeck@bna.com> suggested that it may be as simple as setting
(declare-initial-value input-whitespace-treatment
'collapse)
While at this point in my education, this is a pure magic
incantation, it appears to work. I also note that this is probably
what is doing the magic in DocBook; at least I notice that that same
command is in dbparam.dsl, and that various other rules explicitly reset
input-whitespace-treatment to either 'collapse or
'preserve.
So I think the mystery is solved, although it will require some
study before I understand the solution.
My thanks to all who spent time and thought to assist me in
this.
At 09:54 AM 5/9/01 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
/ Norman Walsh
<ndw@nwalsh.com> was heard to say:
| Even if I use the RTF backend, I still get the spaces:
|
| {\rtf1\ansi\deff0
Oops. If I use the print stylesheet, the spaces do go away. This
must
be a feature of the RTF backend.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Mark B. Wroth
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