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

[Brian Wilson]

Thank you Dennis,

We need regular spaces for the phrasal spacing. It is also helpful to have the ZWSP in order to work with the text in BE. It is much easier on the eyes.

Currently I have a friend (we are still friends at the moment) alternating between pulling his hair out and beating his head against the wall in developing a perl script that will run through the data files in the Project directory and insert the ZWSP between Lao words found in a laowordlist.txt file while removing duplicate ZWSP. The progress is promising. 

I am interested in the space characters you use for final publishing. 

God bless,

Brian

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Dennis Drescher <address@hidden> wrote:

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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