Very impressed but a bit lost…

  • Resolved John

    (@dsl225)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there,

    I’m working on site with lots of academic documents in french, imported from Word. That worked quite well in general except that I was getting some strange behavior with quotes like this one:
    https://cloudup.com/cQ9aDlE6jUr

    I installed this plugin and mainly adjusted this particular setting for quotes:
    https://cloudup.com/c710S-GeVeJ

    The result is now fine but I don’t well understand how this is possible as I still have spaces after/before quotation marks?
    https://cloudup.com/crgWJ3j93i4

    Wasn’t my setting supposed to remove those spaces?
    Or do I miss something?

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author pepe

    (@pputzer)

    Hi @dsl225, there should be a thin non-breakable space before/after french guillemets. For compatibility reasons with older browsers, PHP-Typography (the formatting library used by wp-Typography) uses   instead. There is a setting to switch to the true narrow non-breaking space character, but I’ve just realized that this setting is currently not accessible from with wp-Typography.

    Also, there may be a second thing going on: If your content already contains guillemets instead of straight quotes, those are NOT automatically transformed by wp-Typography. The plugin assumes that an “special” characters are there on purpose and does not try to change them.

    Thread Starter John

    (@dsl225)

    Many thanks for this.

    I checked again and sometimes this thin non-breakable space before/after french guillemets is indeed there but sometimes not – which is really not very important.

    I understand that this might be because of the documents that come from different sources but the result is really great and that’s what counts!

    Great job, thanks again!

    Thread Starter John

    (@dsl225)

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    Thread Starter John

    (@dsl225)

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    Plugin Author pepe

    (@pputzer)

    @dsl225: Is there anything you’s like to know or can we close this issue? I’ll add an enhancement request on GitHub to add the setting for the narrow non-breaking space to wp-Typography.

    Thread Starter John

    (@dsl225)

    No thanks, that’s just fine for me, no problem.
    I marked this as resolved but my previous reply appeared here 3x that’s why I removed the content of the last 2.

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