Apparently the 3rd column is used to specify specific characters depending on the semantic. Here is the example and explanation from the liblousutdml documentation: generic td \*;\s The third column specifies that a semicolon should be placed at the very end of the row. The generic semantic action causes each column in the table to be followed by a semicolon and a space, as specified in the third column. your liblouis table must also contain the following line: noback always ;\s; 0 On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > Is it possible to get liblouisutdml to compress the whitespace only for > certain nodes in a document? > > Also what is \s meant to do when it is in the third column of a > liblouisutdml semantic action file? I have gathered it has something to do > with spacing but cannot locate any documenting of this. > > Michael Whapples > > > For a description of the software, to download it and links to > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com >