Re: lynx-dev dev20: patch #4 (spaces)

[Leonid Pauzner]

30-Mar-99 09:56 address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> 990327 Leonid Pauzner wrote:
>> > * Undo recent   changes so it is a single space as before
>> > (siggested by KW)
>> >
>> > diff -u old/sgml.c ./sgml.c
>> > --- old/sgml.c  Thu Mar 18 11:04:28 1999
>> > +++ ./sgml.c    Sat Mar 27 23:04:08 1999
>> > @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
>> >         /*
>> >         **  Use Lynx special character for emsp.
>> >         */
>> > -       PUTC(HT_EN_SPACE);
>> > +       /* PUTC(HT_EN_SPACE);  let stay with a single space :) */
>> >         PUTC(HT_EN_SPACE);
>> >      } else {
>> >         /*
>>
>> i don't believe there was any kind of consensus to do this, was there?
>> there was certainly some support for using  2  spaces here.

> My understanding is that LP's taking this out because the change is not
> guaranteed to work when there's attributes present.

That changes have nothing with handling of attributes.
Currently &emsp expanded differently when we are
1)  not in attribute,
2)  in attribute and in <pre>,
3)  in attribute and no <pre>,
So things should be unified first.