From: Thomas Savary <compo85@correctionpro.fr>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: characterspacing not always working in LMTX
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:25:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2199238.F81R2dj7GW@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e1e39a1.1c69fb81.a2462.c312@mx.google.com>
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Hello, dear list !
Joseph :
> With LMTX (MkIV is fine) characterspacing (I use frenchpunctuation) is not
> applied sometimes (ie no spacing before colon for example) in some parts of
Character-spacing for French punctuation marks is incorrect in MkIV anyway :
the “thin” spaces are much too wide. I will write more about it when I have
more time. I have just begun to lean ConTeXt. For the time being, I don’t use
its automatic spacing for French punctuation, but real Unicode spaces such as
U+202F (non breakable thin space, about 0.125 em, depending on the font).
By the way, thin spaces are not specific to French typography, historically
speaking, since they seem to have been used everywhere in Europe for centuries
— at least in England, Belgium, Germany and Italy (probably in the Netherlands
too, I will check). In France and sometimes in England, thin spaces were often
used before commas as well. I wonder why most countries stopped using them.
Out of laziness ? :-)
Greetings,
Thomas Savary
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F-85340 L’Île-d’Olonne
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https://correctionpro.fr/
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mardi 14 janvier 2020, à 22:58:57 CET, Joseph a écrit :
> Hello,
>
>
>
> With LMTX (MkIV is fine) characterspacing (I use frenchpunctuation) is not
> applied sometimes (ie no spacing before colon for example) in some parts of
> the text. Unfortunately so far I cannot provide a MWE so I am wondering if
> there is a way to trace this to hopefully figure out what the problem is.
>
> Many thanks
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Joseph
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 21:58 Joseph
2020-01-14 22:24 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-01-14 22:25 ` Thomas Savary [this message]
2020-01-15 9:15 ` Hans Hagen
2020-01-15 10:29 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-01-15 12:02 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2020-01-15 15:10 ` Thomas Savary
2020-01-15 15:16 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-01-17 8:41 ` Thomas Savary
2020-01-17 9:01 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-01-15 14:59 ` Thomas Savary
2020-01-15 9:16 ` Hans Hagen
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