Re: EWW: Face property changes around newlines

[Stefan Monnier]

> EWW appears to work differently -- if you take a plain paragraph that
> spans multiple lines, the text uses "variable-pitch" as  the face
> property -- except that that property is not set on the newline
> characters within the paragraph.

I'm not sure how hard/easy it may be to change SHR (used by EWW) to do
that, but I have the impression that it may be non-trivial.

> I'm sure this makes no visible difference to the layout -- but it
> affects Emacspeak's logic for breaking content into meaningful
> clauses.

Maybe it would be simpler to change Emacspeak so it ignores face
properties on whitespace?


        Stefan