Hi,
Thanks for "language-context”.
>
>> what are the key shortcuts to compile the context file at hand?
>> i try the atom editor on Linux platform.
>> Can't find the way to feed the tex file into context luatex...
>
> There are no key shortcuts. I use a terminal.
> As I wrote:
>
>> So there’s
Hans :
> never seen them [thin spaces] in dutch ...
Example from a book published in Haarlem, 1838, “Gedichten van Nicolaas Beets”
— you will even see thin spaces before commas, like in France in the 17th-18th
century.
https://books.google.fr/books?
id=s1BUcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&sour
> Am 2020-01-15 um 16:10 schrieb Thomas Savary :
>
> Exactly. And this is precisely the thin space still required in French
> publications. The main disagreement among French typographs (about twenty
> years ago, at least) was about the fixed vs relative width of this thin space
> : put in Te
Arthur :
> I think it happened at about the same time for English. Before that
> it was pretty universal. See
> https://archive.org/details/worksbenjaminfr06spargoog/page/n12 for just one
> example.
>
> (The thin space in that example is really thin! -- but it’s definitely
> there)
Exactly.
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:29:35AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Dutch typesetting had some rules for thin spaces in a transition period from
> full spaces (early) to no spaces (modern).
>
> Much of this change happened in the (late) 19th century, so I guess it had
> more to do with linotype/mo
> On 15 Jan 2020, at 10:15, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> By the way, thin spaces are not specific to French typography, historically
>> speaking, since they seem to have been used everywhere in Europe for
>> centuries — at least in England, Belgium, Germany and Italy (probably in the
>> Netherland
On 1/14/2020 10:58 PM, Joseph wrote:
Hello,
With LMTX (MkIV is fine) characterspacing (I use frenchpunctuation) is
not applied sometimes (ie no spacing before colon for example) in some
parts of the text. Unfortunately so far I cannot provide a MWE so I am
wondering if there is a way to trace
On 1/14/2020 11:25 PM, Thomas Savary wrote:
Hello, dear list !
Joseph :
> With LMTX (MkIV is fine) characterspacing (I use frenchpunctuation)
is not
> applied sometimes (ie no spacing before colon for example) in some
parts of
Character-spacing for French punctuation marks is incorrect
