From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: French typography is back
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 18:29:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A15814D.3020400@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A15490B.3050607@pengzone.org>
Robert-André Mauchin wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I have been reading all threads about the French typography in this
> mailing list, however the current solution is alas far for perfect. The
> command \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] was a good idea, but it
> only deals with spacing. French typography rules not only tells us that
> there should be a narrow, or a normal space before some punctuation
> marks like :, ;, , !, ?, « or », but also that theses spaces must be non
> breakable otherwise line breaking could occur just before a punctuation
> mark (and this is very bad).
>
> Take a look at the following example:
> \section{Production locale indigène ou production romaine importée?}
\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]
\hsize .1mm a? aa? aaa? aaaa?
seems ok here so what version are you using?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-21 16:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-21 12:28 Robert-André Mauchin
2009-05-21 14:39 ` Peter Münster
2009-05-21 15:24 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-05-21 16:26 ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-21 16:29 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-05-21 17:33 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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2009-05-21 18:32 ` Robert-André Mauchin
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2009-05-20 6:25 MkIV italic correction? Corsair
2009-05-21 9:55 ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-21 13:20 ` Khaled Hosny
2009-05-22 9:25 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-05-22 10:48 ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-22 11:23 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-05-22 12:44 ` French typography is back Robert-André Mauchin
2009-05-22 15:51 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-05-22 16:38 ` Robert-André Mauchin
2009-05-22 22:58 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2009-05-22 16:40 ` luigi scarso
2009-05-22 17:06 ` Hans Hagen
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