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

Hans

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