- 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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