Jeff Smith wrote: > > The spacing is retained for the single quotes. But it shouldn't be -- > this sort of spacing in French is used with guillemets, but never with > single quotes (') or double quotes ("). At the very least, I can > confirm this is the French Canadian norm, which I want to use. So, > from what I understand, the system reacts with the quote as it is > instructed to do with French guillemets -- add the spacing -- but only > its appearance is changed. I'm afraid it's not enough. The result I > want is... > > « This quote has 'quotes' in it. » > > Am I asking too much here? Typographic norms across languages can vary > a lot, I'm afraid. > grep the base path for \definehspace and search for line with "fr" in the tag and you'll see how things can be influences
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