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[Alfe <address@hidden>]

Hi, Murali ...

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Murali Agastya wrote:

> There is a macro called "smart-space" in the CVS that I use sometimes. I 
> first got it from this list via DDAA and then Joris modified it. Google 
> it and you will find. It allows only one space to be input but even so 
> this allows for whitespace to "creep in" for certain combination of 
> movements.

Ah, thank you :-)

> I was suggesting that a command that could remove all extra whitespaces.  
> Of course, space that is entered via commands such as \medskip, \hspace 
> etc. would remain.

Of course, special macros should retain untouched.

But I was rather thinking of a 'mode' or something in which _all_ doubled 
whitespace (no matter how they happened to occur) are represented as _one_ 
space.  This, in other words, would mean to disallow entering spaces at 
the beginning of a line, disallow entering more than one, and 
automatically remove them when they happen due to deletion of text because 
TeXmacs is wysiwyg (or wysiwyw, as somebody once put it).

I like the clear structured way TeXmacs uses and find the way it handles 
spaces rather annoying; it seems to break the idea because multiples of 
spaces should _never_ be used.  I think I don't have to put out the 
advantages of macros like \hspace \*skip etc., or of the even better ways 
to structurally produce the layout you want to have (by using margins, 
indentations etc.)

                                        Alfe

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