![]() ![]() There's this one rant I wrote a few years back, but I can't find it now. There's nothing smart about them, Those wrongly oriented curly quotes are probably the "smart quote" feature getting it wrong, so I think smart-ass quote is appropriate You wouldn't want the world to go spinning off its axis and into the sun. So, do yourself a favor and always use correct punctuation + italics! if they messed up the little stuff, what OTHER things did they botch? I can't trust one thing coming out of this book! A missing thin space between the quotes? THE HORROR!!! If I spot such a thing wrong/missing, I know exactly who to blame.Īnd then I think. Or italicizing their molecules in chemistry: Or accidentally using italics for functions or Units: ✓ I was 5′11″ after standing with my back straight.✗ I was 5’11” after standing with my back straight.The wrong apostrophe in a shortened word/year: This thin space is one of those rules I watch it like a hawk, like. Yes, yes, of course I am! Yep, custom fonts to fix this issue everywhere. Open the font in FontForge and add the kerning You're using your own side-loaded font, aren't you? Where I discussed French spacing + non-breaking characters in extreme detail.įrench uses THIN SPACES all over the place, so this gap around punctuation becomes MUCH more of an issue. Side Note #2: For more technical info, see: If you know your font actually has it + the device/program you're using supports it properly, then use it instead. Technically, the most-correct Unicode character is: To be non-breaking, and many fonts already include that character. ![]() * Side Note: Most word processors + print layout programs already cause: Go with any of the other options instead. Then in a far third/fourth, I'd settle for: Ugly, but will work everywhere, in every font, on every device.Max compatibility, while still giving you "a space AND non-breaking".If I wanted to add some space, I'd add a non-breaking thin space (U+202F). Unfortunately, # on the second stack won’t work at all with the lyrics tool because Dorico will always turn the straight apostrophe into a typographic quotation mark.Īs you can’t see what you’re actually inputting in the lyrics pop-over, it’s probably a good idea to build more complex figures in a word processor and copy them across.I say no, I'd rather let the font kerning take care of those (even if they normally don't). For more complex figures this can be awkward even with a german keyboard (the font was developed with a german keyboard in mind, so you can find and memorize the keys logically there), so I definitely recommend using different verses for different stacks. Here you would input the first column first, advance the imaginary caret with one of the space characters (y < Y < space) and go on with the second column. (You’ll probably want to adjust the horizontal position of more or less each figure because of this, though.) It’s a bit tricky if you need more than one character in a stack, something like 6/3#. Sebastian: Most characters have zero width, so you can input the stacks one after another. ![]()
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