[xep-support] preventing line breaks before punctuation

[David Tolpin]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:28:39 +0500, Geoff Levner <geoff at n-generate.com>  
wrote:

> In French, punctuation characters like the colon and semicolon are  
> separated from the preceding word by a space.  (Par exemple : noter  
> l'espace.)  But the word and the colon following it should never be put  
> on separate lines.
>
> Does anybody know of a way to prevent XEP from inserting line breaks  
> before an isolated colon or semicolon?
>


Hi Geoff,

sounds like in French, colon and semicolon must be included into an inline
with space-start set to 0.5em . Is that right? To do that, you can write a  
simple XSLT or any general-purpose language filter.

David

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