BIPM final review: "NOTE :" French typographic rule inserts empty space before colons

[ronaldtse]

From BIPM Janet Miles:

There are a number of differences between standard French and English typographic rules, but in particular in French there is an inseparable space before a colon (:)

• Issue 19 in #189
• Issue 8 in #190

This applies to the "NOTE:" display, where an empty space needs to be "NOTE :" not "NOTE:".

[opoudjis]

Crap, that is in fact universal for inserted text. It will need to be a l10n( ) function, and because l10n() is already used to capture issues with Chinese, that should be sufficient.

[ronaldtse]

Thank you @opoudjis , it's comforting to know that the existing l10n implementation can handle this.

[opoudjis]

French practice varies by locale. We haven't done locales yet, and our assumption of two-character languages is so universal in the code, that it would be more straight forward to introduce locale as a distinct parameter in configuration, alongside language and script. I'm going to code this in, although for now we are only going to implement French practice.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparatif_des_diff%C3%A9rents_codes_typographiques_francophones

• fr-FR: full nbsp before colon, narrow nbsp before »;?!, narrow nbsp after « [if no narrow nbsp available, full nbsp can be used]
• fr-CF: narrow nbsp before colon, narrow nbsp before »;?!, narrow nbsp after « ** Some France French typographers think that's a good idea, but it isn't general practice
• fr-BE: same as fr-FR
• fr-CA: full nbsp before colon, narrow nbsp before », narrow nbsp after «, narrow or no space before ;?! [i.e. if no narrow nbsp available, don't use full nbsp]

Since we do have narrow nbsp, this becomes:

• narrow nbsp before »;?!, narrow nbsp after «
• full nbsp before colon everywhere but Switzerland
• narrow nbsp before colon in Switzerland

[opoudjis]

This raises the prospect of whether we should be applying such localisation retrospectively to main body text. For the time being, we won't, too much risk of things going wrong.

[opoudjis]

@ronaldtse Please query ISO and IEC whether they want to apply Swiss French or France French localisation to colons. If I don't hear back, I'll leave it France French.

[opoudjis]

Needed to remove direct dependency of isodoc on isodoc-i18n, since isodoc depends on relaton-render and mn-requirements, which also depend on isodoc-i18n

[opoudjis]

The good news is that French punctuation localisation is implemented, although it's caused @CAMOBAP some grief because of circular development dependencies. We are seeing it show up now in Requirements encoding as well.

The bad news is... what "NOTE:"? The automatically inserted text is just "NOTE".

Imagine my irritation when I discovered...

... that the PDF is inserting the colon independently of the Presentation XML.

@Intelligent2013 because of this ticket, we have localisation applied to any punctuation in text inserted by Metanorma, and that includes ":" after NOTE. That means that in this instance, I should be inserting the colon, not you, so that I can localise the colon in French to have nsbp before it.

Please

• let me know which templated text you are inserting colon after for BIPM
• remove your colon insertion, so that I can insert it with appropriate localisation in Presentation XML instead.

[Intelligent2013]

@opoudjis in BIPM XSLT, colon puts after:

1. Part.sg localized string + bibdata/ext/structuredidentifier/part:

(example PDF: https://github.com/metanorma/bipm-si-brochure/blob/gh-pages/documents/mep-mole-definition-en.pdf, page 3)

2. Sub-part, or Partie de sub (depends on language, fixed text in XSLT) + bibdata/ext/structuredidentifier/subpart. I don't have any example, but this text renders immediately after the text from 1.

3. note/name in the preface:

   • If language is fr, then text  : added after note/name
   • otherwise : (example from BIPM SI brochure FR)

4. termnote/name:

   • If language is fr, then text  : added after termnote/name
   • otherwise, :

(Example from mep-candela-rapport-en.pdf)

5. note/name in non-preface sections:

   • if language is fr, then text in note/name replaced by:
     • Remarque :, if note in list item
     • Note :

   • if language is en, then text in note/name replaced by:

     • Note:

     ...

(Examples from BIPM SI brochure FR)

If something isn't clear, please ping me.

[opoudjis]

Shit.

OK, this is more work than I'd hoped for, to move all this logic into Presentation XML, but that is what I'm going to have to do.

For whatever reason, the first note in the preface is not getting space before the colon. But I'm going to take responsibility for all of this over, including the Note/Remarque distinction (which needs to appear in HTML too).

[opoudjis]

@Intelligent2013 1, 2: these are inserted into <title language="en" format="text/plain" type="part"> and type="subpart", right? And that happens consistently for all documents with part titles?

[opoudjis]

3 is what failed, and I don't know why.

[opoudjis]

I've implemented 3-6.

[Intelligent2013]

@opoudjis

1, 2: these are inserted into