From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Renaud AUBIN <aubin@nibua-r.org>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org>
Subject: Re: MK II ( \mainlanguage[fr] && \useencoding[ffr] )+ mpost
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:20:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B17F34D.1050209@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4x55eav.fsf@nibua-r.org>
Renaud AUBIN wrote:
> OK, since I don't know the behavior of \setupcharacterspacing, the
> following question may seem stupid to you:
> How the following string will be processed « Did you notice that real
> NO-BREAK SPACE chars are already there? »
why not just try it
currently only intermediate kerns, glue and spacing characters are
considered
> More over, since I have just forgotten my « Lexique des règles
> typographiques en usage à l'imprimerie nationale »at work, I have to
> wait the morrow to confirm the fact that some use of U+202F NARROW
> NO-BREAK SPACE are necessary. Same question as the previous one applies
> when NNBSP are already there…
it depends to what extend you want context to clean up and optimize
spacing; it can be that 202F is there for other purposes (and maybe not
even consistently used as it is kind of invisible); so it should
probababluy configurable (we have already some modes)
> And the last question of the day ;) : … expends to . . . with
> french. Could that be easily corrected?
probably, but first i want proper specs on which most french users agree
(so i do an extra cc to arthur who is sort of in charge of the french
tex users)
> (This flow of question comes from my recent experiments of the advanced
> capabilities of bépo fr keyboard plus .XCompose usage).
Hans
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