French typography / Non-breaking spaces

[Stef]

Hello,

I'm considering adopting Nisus Pro as my primary word-processing program, but there is a question to which I can't find a clear answer, so I thought I'd log on here to ask anyone with experience who might have a moment to reply.

When typing in French (for example) does Nisus automatically insert — or does Nisus have the capability to insert automatically — non-breaking spaces before or after those punctuation marks which require non-breaking spaces in French, e.g., French-style quotation marks (« »), colons (:), semi-colons (;), question marks (?), etc.?

I realise that inserting such non-breaking spaces can be done manually, but on a book-length typescript manual insertion is not an option. The feature has to be automatic. In Word, for example, when the language is set to French and one types in French, non-breaking spaces are automatically inserted where they should be, and this is one thing at least which Word does without much fuss. In LaTeX, if the language is set to French and the proper packages are loaded, the proper spacing will show up in the output when the document is compiled.

I've had a look at the Nisus manual, and it seems to me that it might be possible to configure the QuickFix function to do this, but it would be better if the program took care of this automatically.

Any answers anyone would be able to provide would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Stef

[Hamid]

[...]When typing in French (for example) does Nisus automatically insert — or does Nisus have the capability to insert automatically — non-breaking spaces before or after those punctuation marks which require non-breaking spaces in French, e.g., French-style quotation marks (« »), colons (:), semi-colons (;), question marks (?), etc.?[...]Stef

Welcome to the forum.
If you set the language of the text to be entered in the document to French, Nisus will insert the required spaces for French punctuation. You can check this in QuickFix Preferences for French:

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[Stef]

Thanks, Hamid, for taking the time to reply, and for confirming that Nisus does indeed support the automatic insertion of non-breaking spaces with punctuation when typing in French.

It seemed to me that Nisus would support this, given the qualities of the program, but it just wasn't clear if it actually did do so.

Stef