Re: support figure space (U+2007)

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 08:20:18AM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> I suggest that texinfo adds
> 
> ```
> \DeclareUnicodeCharacter{2007}{\hphantom{0}}
> ```
> 
> to support the figure space.  This would allow the emulation of
> right-aligned number columns in tables, for example.
> 
>      1  foo
>    101  bar
> 
> The nice thing is that it would work out of the box with HTML
> browsers, too.

Do you need this for some document?

> On the other hand, maybe there could be some further
> massaging to convert U+2007 to an ordinary space entity together with
> some formatting CSS so that cut-and-paste don't contain U+2007.

This sounds complicated.

In Info output I suppose it should be output as just a plain space
character, without line breaking.

It makes me wonder if the next thing after this is to support
all kinds of alignments in tables.

It would seem to make more sense to have some way of specifying
the alignment of a column rather than adding special figure spaces
which then would have to removed from the output if anybody wanted
to copy and paste.