[pmwiki-users] typography

[malexism (f)]

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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