[OS X TeX] French typography

Tue May 31 11:06:57 EDT 2005

Stefen,

In French typography, you must let a white space after all  
ponctuations like in English but also a space before the ponctuation  
if it is a "double" one for instance : colon, semicolon,  
questionmarks and exclamation marks. In fact, the space before must  
be a little smaller than the space after. We call it "espace fine  
insécable".
There are more things involved in the French typography like space  
before and after parenthesis, numbers…
If you are interested, I recommend you this book : http:// 
www.perrousseaux.com/Sources/ouvrages/Ouvrage1.htm
Jean-Claude DE SOZA

Le 31 mai 05 à 15:52, Steffen Wolfrum a écrit :

> Hi Bruno (and others),
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> occasionally in french books I saw additional white space
> before/after french quotes
> before colon, semicolon, questionmarks and “!" (don't know name).
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> Are there more typographic specials like this in French?
> And what is this called? French typography?
>
> Steffen
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