From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: A few questions (mostly about fonts)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:05:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E60F6D.20304@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e8813a0608181122i72a5123bv73d1dbe15d2429a5@mail.gmail.com>
Jeff Smith wrote:
>
> The spacing is retained for the single quotes. But it shouldn't be --
> this sort of spacing in French is used with guillemets, but never with
> single quotes (') or double quotes ("). At the very least, I can
> confirm this is the French Canadian norm, which I want to use. So,
> from what I understand, the system reacts with the quote as it is
> instructed to do with French guillemets -- add the spacing -- but only
> its appearance is changed. I'm afraid it's not enough. The result I
> want is...
>
> « This quote has 'quotes' in it. »
>
> Am I asking too much here? Typographic norms across languages can vary
> a lot, I'm afraid.
>
grep the base path for \definehspace and search for line with "fr" in
the tag and you'll see how things can be influences
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-18 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-16 18:52 Jeff Smith
2006-08-16 20:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-08-16 21:41 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-16 22:13 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-17 1:19 ` Jeff Smith
2006-08-17 2:53 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-08-17 4:03 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-08-17 16:12 ` Jeff Smith
2006-08-17 16:55 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-17 21:34 ` Hans Hagen
2006-08-18 9:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-08-18 18:22 ` Jeff Smith
2006-08-18 19:05 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2006-08-21 17:48 ` Jeff Smith
2006-08-21 19:29 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-08-16 20:08 ` Ricard Roca
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