2011/12/15 Philip TAYLOR <[email protected]>: > > > 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. > This convention is not used in the Czech language and personally I do not like it. On the other hand, in some fonts the space between a character and a tall punctuation is so small that it looks really ugly before additional thin space. I would say that the meaning assigned to characters by Unicode Consortium is one thing and the glyph shapes in a particular font another. While thinking about typography we should always look at the glyphs we wish to use no matter what Unicode says.
> Philip Taylor > -------- > [1] A few decades at most. > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- Zdeněk Wagner http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/ http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
