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• • October 7, 2018 at 9:42 am #110763
    Anonymous

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    Hi,
    in a frech text the “two points” needs a space before the next word, but the problem is that sometimes the “two points” goes in a new line, in this way:
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet
    : consectetur adipisci elit…
    Is there a way to make that the “word” wasn’t divided from “space” and “two point” ?

    Thank you very much

  • October 8, 2018 at 1:16 am #110766
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    French tends to use spaces before certain punctuation marks, so yes, you need a way to keep things together.

    Two suggestions:
    1. apply a “no break” GREP style for the combination of [any letter][space][colon].
    I’m not a GREP expert, but I think
    .:
    would work as the GREP (any character, followed by any white space, followed by a colon).

    2. get the writer to use a “non-breaking space” (usually alt-space) in those situations.

    (“Two points” / “deux-points” in French = “colon” in English)

    Chris.

  • October 9, 2018 at 1:25 am #110778
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thank you Chris!

    the second way is really simple and works very well!

  • October 9, 2018 at 5:03 am #110779
    Vinny –

    Member

    Hi
    Non-breaking space is definitely the way to go.
    As a French user, I would recommend using “fixed-width non-breaking space” instead of normal one. Especially if your text is justified.
    There are plenty of funny typographic rules about spaces and punctuation and I definitely recommend digging into FindChangebyList script if you often have to clean up French texts.

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