Re: [be] Copy, Paste, and Zero Width Space

[Dennis Drescher]

Hi Brian,

I'm not currently using BE but for these types of situations in projects 
I work with I recommend a couple ways. One way would be to insert a 
visible character in the text that could represent the ZWSP. IMO, you 
really don't want invisible characters in your source text, especially 
when they are only for formated output, not actual data. A second way 
would be to use just normal spaces in BE and then replace them with ZWSP 
just before you run it through XeTeX. My publishing system uses XeTeX 
and this is how I normally handle situations like this. Some projects we 
have we have to use a combination of "space" character types to get the 
final look we need in the output so we might have to replace a couple 
types on-the-fly.

I hope one of these ways work for you. Thanks.

In Him,

Dennis



On 04/15/2013 02:34 PM, Brian Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Brining up a different subject from the mac install issues and that is 
> the need to be able to copy/paste without the cumbersome menu method.
>
> I am needing to enter Zero Width Space between Lao words in the 
> translation. (If email cooperates an example is located between the 
> reversed angle brackets  >​<).
>
> Currently I am translating in libreoffice, inserting the ZWSP manually 
> (it is visible in Libreoffice) and then pasting each verse into 
> bibledit. With this process, Xetex is able to know the 
> word boundaries in Lao and generate a pdf with a justified margin.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Brian
> (In testing all of this I noticed that bibledit 4.6 crashed each time 
> I try to print the Lao text that did not contain the ZWSP. I do not 
> know if the reason was because xetex didn't know what to do with such 
> long strings or whether it had something to do with trying to print 
> only 1 chapter.)


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