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Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
\setupcharacterspacing [frenchpunctuation] [\number`«] [right=.250] \setupcharacterspacing [frenchpunctuation] [\number`»] [left=.250]
And actually, to be very precise, in French typography the space before the colon is supposed to be the same as the normal space, not a fraction of it like before ; ? ! etc ... :-)
so it's .5 is better then ? (fraction of an em) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------