Re: second proposal for inter-word spaces

[Franck Arnaud]

Jeff Kingston:

> So my proposal is to add these three options to the @Space symbol,
> also settable in an @InitialSpace option as in the first proposal:

>      lout @Space         Treat white space the way Lout does now
> 
>      troff @Space        Treat white space the way troff does
> 
>      tex @Space          Treat white space the way TeX does

We also need something for modern typesetting that simply ignores all 
multiple spaces in input and treats all punctuation as normal characters 
(current lout behaviour + previous compress proposal). It should be 
the easiest to implement in any case (or is it a subset of one of the 
proposed choices?).

The general scheme seems a good idea, that would leave room for managing in 
a later version say the peculiar french punctuation (whose main problem is 
to stick `:' `<<', `>>', etc next to the appropriate neighbouring word 
with an unbreakable space).

> The default behaviour would have to be "lout", because
> the discussion has proved that there is no consensus for changing it.

I agree.

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Franck Arnaud <address@hidden>