[tex-k] Prevent "tie" and "ctie" from removing trailing spaces.
Andreas Scherer
andreas_tex at freenet.de
Fri May 29 10:50:56 CEST 2020
Hi, Igor,
> "tie" and "ctie" remove trailing spaces.
At least TIE seems to do it on purpose (see line 656 of tie.w).
> This presents a problem (e.g., when you want to see a "diff"
Why would that be a problem? I regularly use 'diff -w' (and 'git diff
-w') for exactly such situations. (tie.w in the TeX Live source tree
has several end-of-line whitespaces removed compared to the contents of
the 'tie' package from CTAN.)
> Hope these changes will be useful in TL.
I don't think I'd want to change C/TIE in this respect.
Best,
Andreas
PS: What I'd rather want is TIE to preserve comments in the change files
-- at least stuff after '@x' that often hints at the line numbers. In my
CWEBBIN project I make heavy use of TIE to cobble sets of change files
together, but the resulting '*-w2c.ch' files in TeX Live are only useful
for the compiler, not for the human reader.
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