[XeTeX] Re: xetex.def: spurious space

[Ross Moore]

Hi Martin,

On 12/10/2005, at 12:37 AM, Morten Høgholm wrote:

> Hi Ross,
>
> I noticed that there is a spurious space near the end of the  
> definition of \convertHEX@:
>
>    \else\ifnum\count@ >9 A%
>    \else \the\count@ \fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi}  %% MH: here it is!
>    \edef\next{\egroup\def\noexpand#1{#1}}%
>   \next
> }

Yes, that does look wrong.
It's strange that a similar line earlier in the coding has
a % character after the  } .


>
> The effect is pretty bad as it will insert a blank space for every  
> component in the color argument!

Not that bad really, as multiple consecutive space tokens are
always contracted by TeX as if a single token.
So the most you'll ever see is the effect of just 1 space
  --- but even that can be quite wrong in delicate situations.

Here's a fixed version --- now v0.8 .

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Jonathan, please update at SIL, and for MacTeX.


Cheers,

     Ross

>
> Best,
> -- 
> Morten
>

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