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

Martin, Khaled,


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
wrote:

> 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)
>>
>
>

Right. We agreed that we don't want to get to the typographic choices in
the document and limit the scope to the "size" of space, as a word
separator and other use cases, including spaces before/after punctuation
marks, and answer the question whether all these spaces---if decided to be
there by the author/editor---are supposed to be the same size, or not.


-Behnam