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[Torinthiel]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:00:13PM +0100, Nico wrote:
> > 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)
Did a little research on my own.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1996Sep/0098.html
http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-developer/2000-January/001594.html
http://accurapid.com/journal/03type.htm

The last link is the most "official", but it has spaces only mentioned
(near the end, look for 'type and language')
Interesting bit is that the first 2 posts disagree about ;

Anyway, shouldn't it be '\ ' then?

> 
> > (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...
Maybe. She did some writing in class, but no typography at all, not only
in French ;)
> > Torinthiel
> nicolas
Torinthiel

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