Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Normalizing spaces?

Indeed not: the DSSSL spec describes input-whitespace-treatment
as a characteristic of characters, and doesn't discuss
declare-initial-value at all.

I deduce from its behavior that declare-initial-value sets a
characteristic that will be inherited by all element rules unless
overridden by a more specific declaration, and it's this inheritance
mechanism that gets space characters to have this characteristic,
resulting in Jade collapsing them.

Very interesting.

At 07:04 AM 5/10/01 +0100, Dave Pawson wrote:

At 05:09 AM 5/10/01, M. Wroth
wrote:

>I asked this question on the DSSSList, and Daniel Speck
<> suggested that it may be as simple as setting

>

>(declare-initial-value input-whitespace-treatment 'collapse)

>

>While at this point in my education, this is a pure magic
incantation, 

 From long ago memory, (declare-initial-value ......

is one of the things that jade does to set a parameter to its 

basic operation.

I seem to recall using it for something or other such as setting

basic font-size, e.g. (declare-initial-font-size 14pt)

If I'm right (I am occasionally!!) then you won't find much in

the way of documentation or a function definition unless its 

a part of the spec etc.

HTH DaveP

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