French spacing in Pages

Hello everybody,
Is Pages capable of dealing with french spacing after ; : ? ! signs, as it is stated in french typography rules ?
For instance, in MS Word, an unbreakable space is set before these characters.
Thanks for any tips or pointers.

jackintosh wrote:
Is Pages capable of dealing with french spacing after ; : ? ! signs, as it is stated in french typography rules ?
Feature unavailable.
It took some years to get correct French chevrons (with space) at System level (not in Pages at this time).
I think that it would be time to ask for the described feature when iWork '11 will be available.
It's too late to embed changes now.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 23 août 2010 00:31:23

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