Just my personal opinion: I always write these characters without any space before, because: - more space, more to type - the space is a matter of typography, so up to ConTeXt and not to the author - in all other languages there is no space to type (so I keep my habits) - if I use a normal space, the word-wrapping of my editor (emacs) can introduce line-breaks there - using nbsp (shift-space) means even more keypresses
Of course, it depend of the usage but most french put spaces. I'm use to put them (and nbsp) because of mails, wikis, etc. I know, and it's up to ConTeXt to put the right spaces. But for me it must be able te deal with the fact that french people put spaces in the source.
P.S.: As a French guy, what do you think about t-french.tex?
It's great to have it. But for me this question of spaces must be in context and not in an extension : when I say « \mainlanguage [fr] » spaces are supposed to be good — there's no french texte with no space before thoses signs. But I don't know what are the rules for context. If I must use a third package, let's do it ! Cheers, Olivier. -- [Message tapé sur un clavier Bépo : http://www.clavier-dvorak.org ] Olivier nemolivier@gmail.com http://nemolivier.blogspot.com