Hi again,
I have been reading all threads about the French typography in this
mailing list, however the current solution is alas far for perfect. The
command \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] was a good idea, but it
only deals with spacing. French typography rules not only tells us that
there should be a narrow, or a normal space before some punctuation
marks like :, ;, , !, ?, « or », but also that theses spaces must be non
breakable otherwise line breaking could occur just before a punctuation
mark (and this is very bad).
Take a look at the following example:
\section{Production locale indigène ou production romaine importée?}
With the current frenchpunctuation command, we got:
Production locale indigène ou production romaine importée
?
We should obtain:
Production locale indigène ou production romaine
importée ?
Of course we could achieve this manually by adding the correct NNBSP
like this:
\section{Production locale indigène ou production romaine importée\,?}
But I believe the whole point of TeX is to let the engine make all the
typographic stuff.
The best would be to get rid off \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]
and adapt the frenchb Babel module from Daniel Flipo (source and
explanation here http://daniel.flipo.free.fr/frenchb/ ), as a module
(t-french modification), or when loading the language, but I really
don't know how hard it would be since it handles a lot more than just
punctuation marks.
Regards,
Bob.
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