Re: luatex feature question/request

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Olivier Guéry wrote:
>>  > Hello, new to this list, I see this first message. Is it a solution
>>  > for my request (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Feature_Requests) about
>>  > french typography ?
>>
>>  \setcharacterspacing [frenchpunctuation]
> 
> Thank's a lot. It's great !
> 
> I Test it with this :
> 
> Test; test: test? test! \crlf %english input
> Test : test ; test ? test ! \crlf %french input
> Test ; test : test ? test ! \crlf %french with nbsp
> 
> Et seems that only the english input get the spacing.
> Don't know why but the sign « ; » of the english input don't get the spacing.
> You put the value to .25em, looking in the french extension (who can't
> play with utf8) there's a .16667em value. It's seem's that the
> smallest is better because the caracter belong to the word, he's not
> between the two words.

you have to be more explicit; for instance, what do you mean with 
'french input'

it's an attribute, not coupled to a language, but grouping should work 
ok; npsp is not intercepted (no problem to do that)

i can add all kind of thins but then need precise specs + test files


Hans


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