- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 13:33:09 +0900
- To: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>, Behnam Esfahbod <behnam@behnam.es>
- CC: <public-i18n-arabic@w3.org>
On 2017/03/08 10:44, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 09:55:31AM -0800, Behnam Esfahbod wrote: >> 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. > > I tend to agree here and also since such typographic choices (at least > in Arabic) seems to vary over time and house styles; some publication > insert spaces around all punctuation marks with more preference to > expend space after period and coma for justification but also shrink all > such spaces when fitting more text in the line is needed (this is seen > more in older publications), and some follow more or less the modern > practices of English typography, and some even invent rules of their own > (like thin spaces before some punctuation and regular spaces after them) That would match the French tradition. Regards, Martin. > and so on. So I think it going to get too detailed for our document, so > may be a short note that no assumptions should be hard-coded in this > area or something like that would be enough.
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