[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/fr mplayer.1,1.57,1.58

[Nico]

Le Mardi 28 Octobre 2003 13:44, Torinthiel a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:36:50PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:04:55PM +0100, Torinthiel wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:50:41PM +0100, nico wrote:
> > > > it's a typographic rule: in French, "double signs" (i.e. : ; ! ?)
> > > > must be put between two spaces.
> > > >
> > > > > > -.B Regardez ?galement la documentation HTML!
> > > > > > +.B Regardez ?galement la documentation HTML !
> > >
> > > Then why           ^
> >
> > This is probably the e' character that comes out as ? under a different
> > encoding.

yes it is

>
> Could be. I don't know French, but I found this rule hard to understand.
> What if I have a list of
> an item, another item;
> than some more items from another topic
> and finally an end.
> Why should the ; be different than , and .?

this french rule is: 
"single sign, single space": no space before "," "." "..."
"double sign, double space": one space before and after ":" ";" "?" "!"

i've found that typo rule on many (french) web sites, for example:
http://www.ac-poitiers.fr/italien/peda/typo.htm
(this page talks about Italian and French typographic differences, but the 
array should be clear enough)

> (And my mother, having spoken French fluently, taught by French woman,
> but that was LOONG ago, knows nothing of this rule

this is a typographic rule (used only in printing, totaly useless for talking) 
maybe that's why she doesn't know it...

>
> > Diego
>
> Torinthiel
nicolas