Re: [xsl] end-of-sentence full stop in XSL:FO?

["W. Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Torsten Bronger wrote:

> HallC6chen!
>
> I'm looking for a way to distinguish between abbreviation dots and
> those that end a sentence in XML.  Apparently Unicode doesn't offer
> a clean solution to this (does it?), so I wondered whether the
> XSL:FO standard has something for this problem?  If so, it is well
> hidden I'm afraid ...

Can you explain why you need to make this distinction? Is is a 
presentation issue?

XSL-FO doesn't say anything about the semantics of specific Unicode 
characters (except for how whitespace is treated) and doesn't provide 
any specific semantics for characters that end sentences.

If the issue is with your FO engine doing things like breaking 
abbreviations across lines, I think that's just a bug in their 
line-breaking algorithm, which should be able to detect that the period 
in question is not ending a sentence (because it's immediately followed 
by a non-blank character).

Cheers,

Eliot
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