Am Tue, 4 Sep 2012 11:45:53 +0200 schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> Here luatex has an advantage that > such features can be injected via lua without changing the font (if > you know how to do it). I prefer this way because active characters > may break some macros, eg a macro may expect an argument delimited > with : with category 12 but if it is made active for French > typesetting, this macro will not work. The current version of frenchb.ldf (http://daniel.flipo.free.fr/frenchb/) doesn't make punctuation chars like : active when xetex is used, it then use (like polyglossia) \XeTeXinterchartoks to adjust the spacing. So babel + frenchb is already adapted to pdflatex *and* xelatex. With lualatex one can also use microtype to adjust the spacing, see e.g. here http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64591/automatically-adding-space-before-punctuation-in-old-style-english-texts/64609#64609 If someone would suggest this to Daniel he perhaps could implement it. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex