[pmwiki-users] typography
malexism (f)
malexism at free.fr
Wed Feb 2 15:57:02 CST 2005
Neil Herber a écrit :
> In French, the colon (:) and the semicolon (;) always have a
> non-breaking space in front of them.
Yes ; You explain better than i can do. But this is the same with all
double... ones.
> This rule was designed to make the life of Canadian publishers and
> typesetters miserable.
:-)
> I am surprised to hear that an exclamation point (!) and a question mark
> (?) are also supposed to be preceded by a space in French. That's a new
> rule to me!
i'm sure.
And do you know that a space in typography is "une espace" in French ? A
space between... well... an apple and a banana, is "un espace" :-)
marc
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