Alan Braslau schrieb am 07.06.2024 um 16:21:
I have *never* understood how this works and, in fact, have always done
weird stuff like explicitly putting a nbps before double punctuation
(:;) in my document sources. I do this as it makes the sources much
more readable, preventing my text editor from ever breaking lines
before the punctuation (and not having some space in the source looks
awkward when reading French text).
I use:
[...]
This gives proper spacing with \quotation{} and with \startquotation
... \stopquotation. Also, {\en\quotation{}} and {\de\quotation{}} in
the document correctly do not add spaces.
1. \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] takes care about the space
before/after quotation marks when you use manual quotes in a document.
It doesn't matter whether you use or don't use space between the
quotations marks and the quoted text.
%%%% begin example
\starttext
\startlines
«quoted text»
« quoted text »
\stoplines
\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]
\startlines
«quoted text»
« quoted text »
\stoplines
\stoptext
%%%% end example
2. When you use the quotation command or environment ConTeXt adds a
space between the quotation marks and the quoted text by itself but in
the quotation-environment the space before the closing mark disappears
when you add \setcharacterspacing.
%%%% begin example
\language[fr]
\starttext
\startquotation
quoted text
\stopquotation
\quotation{quoted text}
\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]
\startquotation
quoted text
\stopquotation
\quotation{quoted text}
\stoptext
%%%% end example
Is \setupquotation[symstyle=\resetcharacterspacing] necessary?
It's a temporary fix for the problem with the quotation environment by
disabling the characterspacing mechanism when ConTeXt places the
quotation marks.
Wolfgang
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