Ambiguous Spaces

[Emma May Smith]

Could you do something like assign a value of 0.5 to an ambiguous space and 1 to a "definite" space?  Or maybe 0.4 or 0.6, so that pairs of ambiguous spaces would add a sum distinct from the value of a single "definite" space?

One other thing you could do is to define your own units, and use these units instead of words.



I agree it is a non-trivial exercise.

These are interesting alternatives, and not something I had considered. It wouldn't be possible to have a 0.5 with the measures I'm currently taking, but certainly if I change the units then this becomes more of a possibility.

But then the features themselves depend on whether they're word-start or word-end. The patterning of glyphs inside words is one of those key things about the text that it's just so useful to include in what's being measured.

Hmmm...