According to Unicode, programs have freedom how to stretch nor not-stretch spaces which are (just) marked non-breaking.
So Greg has asked the right question, namely what happens. Several users have given their preferences. I would go with the idea that a line of justified French text should look balanced. So if - for whatever reasons - a line got large spaces, the non-breaking space with the "!" or "?" should also look somewhat larger than "normally" (to take some of the "stretch-burden"). In summary: I would prefer a non-breaking space to stretch (proportionally) in a justifying context and to not-stretch in any other context. Maybe hard to implement? Is this list a good place to collect user preferences and arguments for and against? And how will the conclusion be finalized and be presented to the developers? Is there a similar list like this in French? Our local language (Anii) is following the French orthography as far as possible. So we are highly interested, since we produce all our stuff on Scribus. Just creating something "special" and calling it "French spacing" or linking it automatically to language French would not help us. I am wary of too much automatics and other layouters might also have exotic needs. I often prefer manual ways to set things to our local needs. Scribus is great for that so far. greetings Martin On 11.04.2014 14:25, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 04/11/2014 08:17 AM, Peter Nermander wrote: >>> I'm sure you are right about the "original" meaning of non-breaking >>> spaces. Let >>> me say it other words: It would be nice to have two different kinds of >>> spaces: >>> one with fixed width and a streching one. It doesn't matter if you call it >>> >> >> There are plenty to choose from: >> >> https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html >> > I think the important question is about what happens to a non-breaking > space with full justification. Is it subject to being widened? If so, I > think Scribus should exempt these from any stretching. > > Greg > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
