>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Warnking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Jan> Talking about quotes and spaces in French, I have an offtopic
Jan> question: Are spaces after opening << and before closing >>
Jan> really good typography in French? I know about the spaces (thin
Jan> protected ones) before :;?! but am just not sure about the <<>>.
Jan> I wrote a text in french (not frenchb, what's the difference?)
Jan> and left out all such "typographic" spaces. Babel put them in for
Jan> me before :;?!, but not between the guillemets and the following
Jan> (preceding) word. The text "looks" fine to me but then, I'm not
Jan> french...

See for example the bottom of this page:
http://bisance.citi2.fr/typo/

Note that some other language use the same quotes as in french, but
without the spaces.  These texts "look fine" too.

JMarc

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