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2008/9/30 Peter Münster
On Tue, Sep 30 2008, Olivier Guéry wrote:
Think about the usage Celine made of the punctuation.
Hello Olivier,
Who is Celine?
A french writer from the 20th century. He's revolutionnary cause he make « true » litterature by using spoke language. He used a lot punctuatios (espacially « … » in fact). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9line
So the rules is not : there's a space before « ! ». But there's a space befor « ! » if the signe before is not punctuation. But i understand your point of view. In fact such a rule is so unknow and rare that I thinked it's better to « hard-coded » it.
If you begin to treat such exceptions, you'll never finish. Today you're thinking of "!!!", tomorrow there will be "19:20" or "Hi!jab". There are 2 main ideas: - Don't put too many exceptions into ConTeXt, especially if there is no hope to treat them all automatically. When a text needs special constructions, put them in a macro, for example \ThreeExclamationMarks.
I'll try this.
- For most "rules", the opinions diverge. Some people want a bit more kerning here or there, other people want less.
In fact it's the beauty un typography : there's rules and the last one is « you can alway find an exception ». I realy understand your point and you're certaily right, I'm too strict :-) ; let me just point out that since most people don't know the rules they expect their computer to know them. So you can say : be cool with the rules, let people do adjustment themselves, or make « hard » rules with the possibility to switch them off. I really don't know what's the better. Certainly something between the two, as usual !
- there is some default value for the amount of this space, that can be easily changed by user-setup
Maybe it's just because changing setup look's hard for me… gonna learn ! Thank's a lot for taking the time to answer me. Olivier. -- [Message tapé sur un clavier Bépo : http://www.clavier-dvorak.org ] http://nemolivier.blogspot.com