Hi,
Am 2012-09-06 16:36, schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
2012/9/6 Tobias Schoel <liesdieda...@googlemail.com>:
It's simply checking for a flag that says "I want French Spacing" and then
including white space (in whatever form) at appropriate places. You can take
appropriate white space from the font according to your liking (there are
many in space codepoints in unicode) or do it yourself. At the most you can
ask unicode to include a special "Space in front of some punctuation in
French"-codepoint, but I doubt that would be successful nowadays.
No, such a codepoint is not needed and it will require additional work
from the authors. If you understand OpenType internals, look how
explanation and question marks are handled in the Devanagari script in
GNU FreeFont. This is the right way because it does not need TeX
solution in order to achieve the correct spacing. You can use the font
in Word, in OpenOffice, in InDesign, on the web page and the spacing
will be correct.
OK, this is the first variant I mentioned and it’s interesting to see
that it’s hardcoded this way. I’m not on principle against such
solution, but I see more problems than advantages. Some questions:
- Do other fonts share this feature?
- What would an indic person do if they wanted to write about a question
mark? Do they switch off the script setting? (I’m a linguist, so
meta-level typesetting is interesting to me)
- What do you do when dynamic spacing (as usual in textsetting like in
Word) is applied? Spaces might decrease below the width of the
whitespace in question- and exclamation mark which stays unvariable.
- How was this treated with in metal typesetting?
Best regards,
Georg
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