Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Space before/after ---

[fred_o]

Hi,

I am typing a document in French and I need to automatically get a fine space (unbreakable) after opening emdash and before closing dash.

How can I do that.

Best,
Fred

[Johannes_B]

Welcome,

babel helps you with punctuation in french. I am not sure,though, what you mean by opening em-dash. Can you elaborate a bit on that?

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\begin{document}
French is nice; Isn't it?

Yes! See:

\enquote{This is supposed to be a french quote}

thinking about it--this is not worth to be thought about. 
\end{document}

EDIT: Crosspost

[fred_o]

Thanks for your answer.

I have typed
blahblah ---quotehere--- blahblah
And I would like tex to understand
blahblah ---\,{}quotehere\,{}--- blahblah

-Fred

[cgnieder]

Depending on what blahblah (from the example in the crosspost) semantically is supposed to mean I'd define a new macro or environment

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\newcommand\thought[1]{---\,#1\,---}

and then use \thought{blahblah} in the document.

Regards

[fred_o]

Ok thanks...
No automatic trick? I mean a package option that would do the job?

[cgnieder]

No automatic trick. --- is just a ligature and not a macro. But even if it were: it wouldn't be easy to make it know when a thought starts and when it ends. Using a macro like I suggested is a much simpler solution.

Regards