[OS X TeX] French typography

[William F. Adams]

On May 31, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

> occasionally in french books I saw additional white space
> before/after french quotes

guillemets

> before colon, semicolon, questionmarks and “!" (don't know name).

exclamation point. Also called a ``bang''

> Are there more typographic specials like this in French?
> And what is this called? French typography?

Depends on the timeframe. Normally these days there's no additional 
space after sentence-ending punctuation, hence the ``\frenchspacing'' 
command from Plain TeX.

If your French is better than mine, this might be of use:

http://www.synapse-fr.com/manuels/GUILLE.htm

and Luc Devroye's pages have this link:

http://www.adpf.asso.fr/adpf-publi/folio/lettres/caracteres.html

and some others:

http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/typography.html

William

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