[XeTeX] From LaTeX to XeLaTeX

[Gerrit Sangel]

Maybe a silly question, but why don’t you insert a nbsp manually? Of course, 
this may not be the best solution, but I guess you could just search for « 
and replace it with «NBSP automatically?

Gerrit

Am Donnerstag 31 Januar 2008 schrieb Charles de Miramon:
> Will Robertson wrote:
> >; babel works so
> > some extent -- I haven't done much testing but fontspec tries to do
> > the right thing for the languages that try to change the font encoding.
>
> Last week, I tried to convert a big French LaTeX article to XeTeX and I had
> problems with the French quotes « ». In French typography, there should be
> an unbreakable space between the quote and the first letter inside. Even
> with the latest version of frenchb it did not work.
>
> I was on a deadline and could not investigate further. Manuel, if you could
> test that feature and report and the list, it would be nice.
>
> Cheers,
> Charles