Re: [5306] describe form feed processing

[Patrice Dumas]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:18:27AM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     mostly means that if they are the first space or the second after a
>     punctuation they are kept, otherwise they are not kept.
> 
> I see.  How does this sound, then (not committed yet)?
> 
>   Output as-is between paragraphs (their most common use) or after
>   punctuation; in other contexts, they may be treated as regular spaces
>   (and thus consolidated with surrounding whitespace).

After punctuation is not special, it is just that, since 2 spaces are
considered in case of not frenchspacing they are more likely to be kept.
I would go for

 Output as-is between paragraphs (their most common use).  In other
 contexts, they may be treated as regular spaces (and thus consolidated 
 with surrounding whitespace).

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Pat