[XeTeX] Polyglossia and Spanish

[John Was]

I think this is largely a matter of (changing) aesthetic preference, not 
just in Spanish.  A guidebook will give recommendations, of course, but 
these are for the convenience of people seeking a rule to follow.  Just as a 
historical note, at Oxford University Press in the days of hot-metal setting 
the convention was that sideheadings were followed by paragraph indentation, 
whereas centred headings were followed by flush-left text; that was 
abandoned decades ago, but the decision is essentially arbitrary and not 
hardwired into any 'rules' that have to be followed.

'Spanish' of course covers a wide spectrum:  the current conventions for 
capitalizing book titles differ somewhat between mainland Spain and South 
America, for example.

Best


John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yves Codet" <ycodet at club-internet.fr>
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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:48 AM
Subject: [XeTeX] Polyglossia and Spanish


Hello.

I would like to ask a question, out of mere ignorance, about a detail
of Spanish formatting. A member of my family recently started
typesetting documents in Spanish with XeTeX and I noticed that the
first paragraph of a section is not indented. I know very little
about Spanish myself and I had a look at a few Spanish books; I could
see that first paragraphs are indented. Moreover according to this
document:

http://www.ati.es/gt/lengua-informatica/externos/tipografia.pdf

"... el primer párrafo tras el título no se compone de forma
especial. Esto último implica que, a menos que se use el nuevo
spanish, conviene cargar el paquete indentfirst."

Is the current behaviour of Polyglossia intended? Does it correspond
to another norm?

Best wishes,

Yves

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