Re: [NTG-context] xml entities and trailing space

On Feb 9, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

this is not that easy as effectively

A&textbar; B

becomes

A\textbar B

and tex will normally gobble that space as part of parsing the input and changing that aspect will not happen

chicken or egg so use:

\xmlsetentity{textbar}{\textbar{}}

Hans

OK, will do that - I was just curious because the behavior changed a while ago. I have older pdfs where the space after such entities was preserved. But you're right, it's no big deal. Thomas