On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Olivier Guéry
Hello, new to this list, I see this first message. Is it a solution for my request (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Feature_Requests) about french typography ?
\setcharacterspacing [frenchpunctuation]
Thank's a lot. It's great !
I Test it with this :
Test; test: test? test! \crlf %english input Test : test ; test ? test ! \crlf %french input Test ; test : test ? test ! \crlf %french with nbsp
Et seems that only the english input get the spacing. Don't know why but the sign « ; » of the english input don't get the spacing. You put the value to .25em, looking in the french extension (who can't play with utf8) there's a .16667em value. It's seem's that the smallest is better because the caracter belong to the word, he's not between the two words.
You could also try to use the MkIV version. from core-spa.mkiv % experimental spacing % % test: oeps {\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]x: xx \bfd x: xx} oeps: test Wolfgang