On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 22:55, Alan Munn wrote: > On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:34 PM, rhin...@postmail.ch wrote: > >> Hi All, >> When typesetting documents in french with polyglossia, >> a space is added before double punctuation signs (like !:?...). >> >> This is normal in french typography used in France. However, >> here in Switzerland, it is more usual to not use this >> extra space. /.../ > There's a command \nofrench@punctuation which turns off all the French > related punctuation. /.../ > So to selectively turn off the special spacing for particular characters, > redefine this command by commenting out the lines that correspond to spacing > that you wish to keep, and then issue the command to turn of the uncommented > ones.
I don't know anything about French in Switzerland, but if such a usage is common, it makes more sense to add an option to Polyglossia to switch French spacing off with a package option/language-specific setting instead of resorting to low level commands. Mojca -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
