Re: ALReq Weekly Meeting, 7 March 2017: Telecon Minutes

On 2017/03/08 02:55, Behnam Esfahbod wrote:
> Minutes from the meeting today available here:
> https://www.w3.org/2017/03/07-alreq-minutes.html

>    Behnam: A discussion about spacing is whether increase the
>    space after the period.
>    ... This also comes up around other punctuations.
>    ... These are some of the issues that we want to talk about.
>
>    Mostafa: Wondering if this topic is too detailed for the scope
>    of our document.
>    ... Specially that these are general typography discussions,
>    not specially about Arabic.
>
>    Richard: I’m wondering what will be useful for someone
>    implementing CSS parts.
>    ... Some languages have special deals with spaces, for example
>    in Urdu and CJK we had that.
>    ... These are the kind of things that might be useful.
>    ... I’m also wondering if some of these are about different
>    styles of different writers.
>
>    Behnam: We don’t have a tool in CSS now for controlling space
>    after a period.
>
>    <ebrahim> Sorry for being late guys
>
>    Behnam: I agree with Mostafa that this concerns a lot of other
>    languages too.
>    ... But even if we have the same practice as, say, Latin, we
>    can just say that we can follow that practice from another
>    script here.

I'm wondering whether there might be any differences re. spaces around 
punctuation between e.g. Morocco and Egypt, based on the influence of 
French and English typography traditions, which differ quite a bit in 
this area.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Wednesday, 8 March 2017 04:31:18 UTC