essential error in the TeXML processor

Shame on me. The TeXML processor had a bug in the core functionality.

Consider the following XML:

<para>
Paragraph starts ...

... and ends.
</para>

One can try to translate it to TeX this way:

Paragraph starts ...

... and ends.
\\pre

But this conversion is invalid. In TeX, a blank line creates a paragraph break. In the example above, we have two paragraphs instead of one.

TeXML comments out blank lines to avoid paragraph breaks:

Paragraph starts ...
%
... and ends.
\\pre

The bug was in understanding what is a blank line. The blank line in TeX is not just the empty line. The blank line is a line which consists of zero or more space characters. Now the bug is fixed.

Categories: TeXML