Dear everyone,


I am writting a French document.

I would like to turn off the French character spacing temporarily in order to

typeset English document title or URL. For instance, I would like to define the commands


\def\englishtitle#1{\turnofffrenchcharacterspacing{\em #1}\turnonfrenchcharacterspacing}


\def\url#1{\turnofffrenchcharacterspacing{\em #1}\turnonfrenchcharacterspacing}


so that a title link “Example: English Title” will be italicised and will not have a space before “:”;

and a URL like “http://www.example.com” neither.


Many thanks,

Joas