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Additional spaces in justification #97

Closed r12a closed 7 years ago

r12a commented 7 years ago

3.6.4 Justification with Centered Wordspace and Punctuation http://w3c.github.io/elreq/#justification_with_centered_wordspace

Do people sometimes insert spaces into text to help with justification? If so, should the justification process ignore or remove them?

dyacob commented 7 years ago

Yes, space is sometimes inserted around Ethiopic wordspace as a work-around to trick software into justifying text closer to expectations. Future software that is "wordspace aware" could ignore these spaces during justification. Unless the spaces are acceptable under a rule given in Section 2.5.1 Rules of Applying Whitespace in Ethiopic Text (http://w3c.github.io/elreq/#ethiopic_whitespace_rules).

I'll add a note to 3.6.4 to clarify how spaces should be treated during justification.