Re: Issues with japanese support

From: Ralf Angeli <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Issues with japanese support
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:56:54 +0100

> > Ralf wrote that the checks for the text property were removed.
> > The reason to strip the check is it works only in Emacs 21.X
> > and Emacs 21.X does not use fill-space text property.  That is
> > no problem.
> >
> > But we can see fill-space text property in LaTeX-fill-newline.
> [...]
> > Ikumi's question is `What for this fill-space text property is set?'
> > If this property is not used, it is something like a garbage.
> 
> Argh, when looking at what Emacs 21 does, I forgot that we actually
> set the property in other compatibility code.  If you think that
> checking for the property in `LaTeX-fill-delete-newlines' is useful,
> please add the code from `fill-delete-newlines' I left out.

In CVS Emacs, 'fill-space is used for checking double space
after period, using variable `sentence-end-without-space', which
is not available in Emacs 21.4.

> The code setting the text property in `LaTeX-fill-newline' should not
> be removed because the text property is checked in
> `fill-delete-newlines' and therefore is useful in Emacs 22 (the

Okay.
This is another suggestion from Ikumi:
   Do not set 'fill-space if Emacs < 22.1.

It seems good to me.

> upcoming release).
> 
Really? Xp

> > He also suggested that we should set this text property
> > nonsticky as fill.el in CVS Emacs do [1], if this fill-space
> > is necessary.
> >
> > [1] fill.el in CVS Emacs
> > (add-to-list 'text-property-default-nonsticky '(fill-space . t))
> 
> Okay.

If we do not set 'fill-space, we don't need above code no more.

best,
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Name:: Masayuki Ataka // (Japan)