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Re: Normalizing spaces?
/ "M. Wroth" <mark@astrid.upland.ca.us> was heard to say:
[...]
| Norman then asks
|
| >So I'm still confused about what special processing you see being
| >applied to spaces.
|
| When I do the equivalent with DocBook and the Modular DSSSL style
| sheets, spaces are not preserved, and I'm trying to figure out how
| that is accomplished.
Ok, I converted that test document to DocBook and ran:
hermes:~$ jade -c /share/doctypes/catalog -d /sourceforge/docbook/dsssl/html/docbook.dsl -t sgml test2.sgm
<P
>It is not permissible under the Society's rules to
fimbriate a chief. Laurel precedent (Laurel Alison, Dec 86
and Aug 88) <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"however this is blazoned, in appearance it
includes a fimbriated chief, which is not permitted for
Society usage"</SPAN
>. RFS VIII.3 limits fimbiration to simple
geometric charges placed in the center of the field; while a
chief is a simple geometric charge, it is not in the center
of the field. </P
>
So it looks to me like the spaces are preserved.
| No -- this is primarily (maybe exclusively) an RTF backend process (I
Even if I use the RTF backend, I still get the spaces:
{\rtf1\ansi\deff0
{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}
}
{\colortbl;}{\stylesheet{\s1 Heading 1;}{\s2 Heading 2;}{\s3 Heading 3;}{\s4 Heading 4;}{\s5 Heading 5;}{\s6 Heading 6;}{\s7 Heading 7;}{\s8 Heading 8;}{\s9 Heading 9;}}
\deflang1024\notabind\facingp\hyphauto1\widowctrl
\pard\sl-240 \fs20 It is not permissible under the Society's rules to fimbriate a chief. Laurel precedent (Laurel Alison, Dec 86 and Aug 88) "however this is blazoned, in appearance it includes a fimbriated chief, which is not permitted for Society usage". RFS VIII.3 limits fimbiration to simple geometric charges placed in the center of the field; while a chief is a simple geometric charge, it is not in the center of the field. }
Be seeing you,
norm
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