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punctuation and spacing - spaces before ? ! and :
  
 
Posted: Dec 28, 2016

Still into punctuation and spacing.

In French there are spaces before “?”, “!” and “:” (non breaking spaces to precise - but this doesn’t really matter).

Is there a convenient way to achieve this?

outputmacro: ^qm()
  ^" ?"

...

t: qui êtes-vous ^qm() 

works but is not scalable.

I have been looking around

^print 

but didn’t find anything relevant for that.

Any idea but hacking the src?
 

 
Posted: Dec 28, 2016
   [ # 1 ]

I will hack the source appropriately.
 

 
Posted: Dec 28, 2016
   [ # 2 ]

Is it scalable enough that you can just separate your punctuation currently…


t: qui êtes-vous : oui ?
t: merde !
 

 
Posted: Dec 28, 2016
   [ # 3 ]

By the way, if it is not, you can easily write simple code in postprocessing topic that substitutes ? with space? and so on.
 

 
Posted: Dec 28, 2016
   [ # 4 ]

When I presently put spaces before ?!: in the code, like:

t: qui êtes-vous : oui ?
t: zut ! 

they are automatically removed in the output.

It would be a perfect solution if they were just kept when present.


(sure I could also write a postprocessing topic)

btw “;” also takes a space before in French - I forgot this one.
 

 
Posted: Dec 28, 2016
   [ # 5 ]

Your examples work fine for me in the internal version of CS. Since this will release this weekend, try it then and see.
 

 
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