On Fri, Jun 26, 2015, Eric Muller wrote: > On 6/26/2015 3:48 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote: >> To do traditional French typography on the PC, > or anywhere
You want to say, on any computer. >> a justifying no-break space is needed along with the colon, because this >> punctuation must be placed in the middle between the word it belongs to and >> the following word. > Actually, it's non-justifying and it's thin. U+202F ‘ ’ NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE > is your friend. U+202F is a very good friend of mine, and it's a part of ready sequences with all spaced French punctuations (;:?!«») I program for the keyboard driver, as well as with U+00A0 for use with monospaced fonts (or following user preferences, since word processors got habits with NBSP). That are things everybody knows. Right now, I'm talking about *traditional French typography* on a computer. And I'm talking about the *colon*. As you can read in old style manuals and as I know from more recent sources and from authoritative examples, things must work just as I wrote a couple of hours ago. Love it or hate it, you should provide the facility. Thank you for the advice. Regards, Marcel Schneider
