Re: Bug report: U+3000 IDEOGRAPHIC SPACE isn't treated as whitespace

[Simon Albrecht]

On 15.02.2018 21:09, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> David Kastrup wrote:
> > \lyricmode does not mean "Paste arbitrary text here".
> How is this relevant to anything I wrote?

It means that lyricmode entry has a syntax governed by specific rules, 
like that a_e is treated like "a e", or that –– creates a HyphenEvent. 
And another of those rules is that syllables must be delimited by ASCII 
whitespace.

> > LilyPond intentionally uses exclusively the ASCII character range for syntactic 
> > purposes.
> ...except it doesn't, as stated.

Nobody understands LilyPond syntax and parser issues better than David K.

> > Everything else can be part of identifiers or
> > words.
>
> Any character can be part of a word, including {, }, \, space, and all the
> rest.  That's why we have quoting constructs: "this is a syllable with { }
> in it".

David was speaking of ‘words’ in the sense of LilyPond’s grammar.

Best, Simon