Re: French typography in HTML output

[John Mandereau]

Hello Karl,

Le samedi 17 février 2007 à 16:43 -0600, Karl Berry a écrit :
> The more feasible method is to explicitly include the space in the input
> file:
> 
> address@hidden:    [assuming no line break should occur before the : or ;]
> address@hidden;
> address@hidden
> address@hidden
> 
> (This is abusing @dmn, but I think it will work.  Or I could add a
> @thinspace{} command easily enough.)
> 
>     characters should be inputed with a preceding blank space in the Texinfo
> 
> I don't understand.

As this typographic rule is systematic in text, I'd like to avoid
putting @tie or @dmn at every occurence, which would make it hard to
read.  If there is no other solution, we'll do this though.


>     source, I suppose a simple text substitution is needed.
> 
> I fear it is far from "simple" :(.

Maybe I am too lazy or naive to think about something else.  I'll try
simple text substitution

' !' -> ' !'
' ?' -> ' ?'
' :' -> ' :'
' ;' -> ' ;'

in the generated HTML.  We already do ugly post-processing like cheating
with node names and dummy cross references, so it won't hurt adding this
to our build scripts.

Greetings,
John