Government and public statistics
Espacement avant et après les signes de ponctuation et les symboles
Office québécois de la langue française, n.d.
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- What it is
- The Québec language office's table showing, for each punctuation mark, whether a normal or a non-breaking space goes before and after it.
- How much weight it carries
- Official government language office in Québec. The table reflects Québec typographic practice, which is close to but not identical with the French of France. Page text is read from its HTML table.
Facts taken from this source
- The Québec language office's spacing table shows the colon (deux-points) with a non-breaking space before it and a normal space after it.
“Une espace insécable Une espace Les étapes sont les suivantes” (Table of punctuation spacing (Deux-points row))
- The Québec language office's spacing table gives a non-breaking space after the opening French guillemet (« ) and before the closing one (»).
“Guillemet français ouvrant 3, 5 « Une espace Une espace insécable ... Guillemet français fermant 1, 3 » Une espace insécable Une espace” (Table of punctuation spacing (Guillemet français rows))