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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mardi 14 janvier 2020, à 22:58:57 CET, Joseph a écrit :
> Hello,
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> 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.
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> Many thanks
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> Regards
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> Joseph