De: "Eric Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> That being said, here are a few problematic cases for your proposal: > > "prud'homme" (a member of an industrial tribunal) is a single word, as > are his relatives "prud'homal", and "prud'homie". I believe TR29 gives a much more common example � aujourd'hui � (today) and admits that it would present a problem for word-breaking. >Speaking of French line break problems, there is also the case of the >";", which takes a space before and after: "foo ; bar". Of course, one >never breaks on the space just after "foo". Same for ":". Well, the space is a thin non-break one (espace fine ins�cable), so obviously no breaks. Same before minor punctuation marks like "!" and "?". Before "major" punctuation marks like ":" , " �" and after "�" the non-breaking space is larger (espace mots ins�cable). This "espace fine ins�cable" is most probably U+202F. Unfortunately, I don't not know how to test this. I seem to have only one font with this character (Andal� Mono) but it seems wider than the normal no-break space despite its name. Word also seems to make no distinction between both no-break spaces (espace mots ins�cable and espace fine ins�cable) : it adds automatically only the larger non-break space and omits the thiner one, I see no (easy) way for it to automatically implement the proper spacing. Any help welcome. P. Andries - o - 0 - o - ISO 10646 et Unicode en fran�ais http://hapax.iquebec.com
