[metapost] re: MetaPost 0.891 announcement

[Hans Hagen]

Larry Siebenmann wrote:
> Hi Taco,
> 
> Your answers are helpful, but there are still a few
> patches of fog in my view.
> 
> Concerning 5:
> 
>  > 5. The EPS output no longer contains spaces
>  > within PostScript strings
> 
> Which processors were troubled by spaces in 
> those PostScript strings; and why?

tex, since it collapses spaces into one space unless catcodes are manipulated 
which then spoils other parsing; also, since tex does not have spaces, one can 
now easilly map the number to whatever wanted

Hans


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