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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: French punctuation: improvement needed
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:52:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4433AF70.5010102@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4433A531.3070601@nibua-r.org>

Renaud AUBIN wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> For my french document, I use:
>
> \def\activateSomeCharacters{%
>   \defineactivecharacter ! {\,\string!}%
>   \defineactivecharacter ? {\,\string?}%
>   \defineactivecharacter : {\,\string:}%
>   \defineactivecharacter ; {\,\string;}}
> \activateSomeCharacters
> \appendtoks\activateSomeCharacters\to\everystarttext
>
> in my environment, but there is a problem:
>
> If the input is "test:", the result is correct but if the input is 
> "test :" (with a space between test and :) the output space between 
> test and : is too large (I assume a normal space + \,)
> Is this possible to get this def smarter ?
do you use \useencoding[ffr]? 

Hans 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-05 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-05 11:08 Renaud AUBIN
2006-04-05 11:30 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-04-05 11:52 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2006-04-05 14:35   ` Renaud AUBIN
2006-04-05 15:44     ` Hans Hagen
2006-04-05 15:58       ` Renaud AUBIN
2006-04-05 17:57         ` Hans Hagen
2006-04-05 16:06       ` Renaud AUBIN

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