This extension (which still needs some work) supports the French 'space before punctuation' style by inserting a non-breaking space before the characters that normally would have a space before them in French, such as :;?! etc.
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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject:
Wow that's nifty...I wasn't even aware there was a spacing pattern like that in French! Part of me wonders, though, if perhaps adding a new autocorrect rule might not be the better approach?
Part of me wonders, though, if perhaps adding a new autocorrect rule might not be the better approach?
It would, if the autocorrect mechanism were set up to support it. There's a thread in Neo Support somewhere where we've discovered that the autocorrect stuff that works so well for, say, the built-in French quotes, fails miserably for punctuation :p
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What mainly needs work in this extension is to make it active only in text that's set to a fr_XX language - it's currently too coarse-grained, I think it only applies this rule at paragraph level instead of character level.
It's interesting to me that the 'extensions culture' means that the OOo developers are exempted from addressing important localisation issues like this themselves, as someone will come along and fix it for them - which is a pretty open-source approach, I suppose. Though then the onus is on the user to find and add the functionality they need.
Is this the most efficient way of addressing the numerous unique quirks that each written language has, or would it be better to have a framework for building such things into the dictionary packs, for instance? Maybe NeoOffice can selectively include language-specific typography extensions in the future as one of the things that makes NeoOffice so good? Discuss...
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