Jonathan Kew wrote:
This reminds me of the French convention whereby a space is often inserted before punctuation such as :, ? or !. I've often felt that this should really be implemented as a language-specific variant of the punctuation glyph (or language-specific kerning) in OpenType fonts, but in practice I usually see it done by inserting a non-breaking space (or something similar) within the text.
I would like to add that this is not solely a French convention. Until /fairly/ recently [1], British English texts were also set with a thinspace before tall punctuation, a tradition that I like so much that I continue to use it to this day. Philip Taylor -------- [1] A few decades at most. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
