- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:17:36 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-math@w3.org
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bruce Smith wrote: > This problem should be clarified somehow in the final release. > One possibility is to strike that incorrect sentence, > and suggest instead that zero-width entities can be added around > or between whitespace characters that should not be collapsed, > e.g. > > <mtext>Theorem 1: ​</mtext> > > or (for two spaces in the middle) > > <mtext>Theorem ​ 1:</mtext> > > Another possibility is to add an attribute to prevent the collapsing. > I vaguely recall such an attribute being suggested in some version > of the XML proposal. I think you are referring to the `xml:space' attribute <!ATTLIST mtext xml:space (default|preserve) 'default'> <mtext xml:space="preserve">Theorem 1: </mtext> This attribute will have to be added to the DTD for all applicable elements. -- Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca <URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/> "And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message" -- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
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