Re: luatex feature question/request

["Olivier Guéry" <nemolivier@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Olivier Guéry wrote:
>
>  > Looking to my tests it seems that if there's a space in the source
>  > file, the spacing is not apply — and I guess the nbsp neither.
>  > So, what would be great is we had something that say : no mater what
>  > is in front of this punctuations (space, nbsp or nothing) just make
>  > them nbsp with the right spacing !
>
>  it's no problem to add avariant that treats nospace, space, nbsp as
>  equel, and removes in that case the space/nbsp but if we support such a
>  thing, we need a better specification; there are probably more space
>  related chars that needs treatment then

Great to hear.
Sorry but I don't understand well your last sentence : « there are
probably more space
related chars that needs treatment then ».
You want to know if there's other rules related to spaces in french typography ?
One of the most complicated for me is the « — » because the nbsp is a
« espace justifiante insécable » — don't know how to say this in
English — when we use it as parentheses, a regular nbps for dialog :
— Hello,
— Hello, how are you ?
and sometime… nothing. So I think we have to deal with this « by hand ».

Bus I'm sure about the rules for « : », « ; », « ? »,  « ! », "«" and
"»". And if I remember well, in Latex the space is 0.16667, not 0.25.

If you want, I can contact french people who know the rules, on a
typography mailing list.

Thank's for trying to solve the french strange behaviours.
Olivier.

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