[XeTeX] Polyglossia and Spanish

Yves Codet ycodet at club-internet.fr
Thu Feb 7 10:37:44 CET 2008


Hello.

Le 7 févr. 08 à 10:04, John Was a écrit :

> 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.

Thanks for your explanations. I understand it is easier for a user to  
load "indentfirst" once than for another user who does not want  
indented first paragraphs to type \noindent every time.

Best wishes,

Yves



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