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[Jean-Pierre Chrétien]

Le 08/05/2023 à 15:21, Jean-Pierre Chrétien a écrit :
> Le 08/05/2023 à 14:43, Pavel Sanda a écrit :
>> On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 02:17:41PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote:
>>> In French, the guillemets are inserted as characters ?? and ??
>>> (automatically translated from  typed character "), but they are associated
>>> to a protected space, so in ?? exemple ??, there are 9 characters without
>>> blanks and 11 with blanks.
>>
>> But this protected space is added by user or it's LyX's doing?
> 
> LyX does the job, the spaces appear in the LyX window.
> 
> Same stuff for punctuation marks : ; ? and !, which are all preceded by a 
> protected space in French. the space is added by Lyx, but it does not need to 
> appear in the LyX window.
> 
> But it is weirder than it looks: if the user types in a space before : ; ? and 
> !, LyX does not add anything, but makes it a protected space if it is not one.
> 
> So, it is clear that the French guillemets counts for 2 characters (one if 
> blanks excluded), but for the : ; ? and ! characters, it would be necessary to 
> count 2 characters if the punctuation sign is not preceded by a blank.
> I suppose that you count characters in the output from the analysis of the 
> characters in the LyX window, is this correct ?
> 

Attached is an example file.

-- 
Jean-Pierre
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