Re: Sentence-end punctuation: French

[Samuel Lacas]

# > > espace normale ---  espace normale (tiret)
# > 
# > In Lout terms, is the dash really "---", not "--"?
# > 
# It's a dash (tiret), in French the 'tiret' can be :
# 
# - Used alone (middle sized):
#  - shows the items of an enumeration,
#  - shows the interlocutor change in a dialog.
# - Used in pairs (large size):
#   - bracing one or several words with the same meaning as a parenthesis.

The second use corresponds to the '---' lout command, if, as I assume,
the rules are the same as in (La)TeX: the sigle dash is used mainly
for hyphenation and punctuation, the double one ('--'), used to
separate numbers in page ranges (p.1--34), and the triple one as a
substitute for parenthesis --- like this --- except that I think you
don't necessarily have a closing triple-dash at the end of a
sentence --- like here.

sL