On Sep 24, 2011, at 8:07 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > 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.
True, but this is how such an option would be created, no? So it might be as simple as creating a gloss-suisse.ldf modeled after gloss-french.ldf which omits the unneeded spacings as I suggested. Alan -- Alan Munn am...@gmx.com -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
