From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Thu May 22 2008 - 11:59:37 CDT
David Starner wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:43 PM, John Hudson <john@tiro.ca> wrote:
>> The key word here should be *glyph*. Correct cultural norms for spacing
>> punctuation should not be a text encoding issue at all, any more than
>> spacing any other glyphs should be an encoding issue. These should be
>> display issues, handled via font intelligence and language tagging.
> Taken most literally, that's obviously not a common practice at all; I
> note the spaces after your commas and periods, and the examples I've
> seen without them have struck me as erroneous and deficient.
A word space is a semantic separator. The space that French typographers
traditionally place before some punctuation marks is not. It doesn't
change the meaning of the text whether that space is present or not.
JH
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