Punctuation spacing and paired punctuation

Understand the principle

Space-before and space-after questions are contextual. French high punctuation and guillemets need different review from English commas; supported Spanish questions/exclamations can require opening inverted punctuation. Numbers and technical strings can imitate prose boundaries.

Look in Typography. The publication concept and a plugin issue identifier are related, but are not interchangeable.

Compare the intent, not only the characters

Ready ,now

Ready, now · in ordinary English prose

Schematic teaching example, not a plugin screenshot or a promise of automatic correction.

Review it in Avellio 2.0

Inspect the exact character and paragraph language. Read the sentence boundary, not just a small snippet. For French, compare the supported regional policy and intended nonbreaking space; for Spanish, locate the real start of the question or exclamation. Read Found and Suggested when offered, or Review in context. Check Text locale; the recommendation itself changes no text. After an intentional manual edit, inspect again.

Use the selected finding’s actual evidence and offered actions. If no suitable supported action exists, make a justified manual decision in InDesign or retain the occurrence. After an edit, inspect again and check nearby composition.

Read the plugin recommendation

When the difference can be intentional

Decimals, URLs, email, abbreviations, quoted fragments and code must not be processed as ordinary sentence boundaries.

Follow related questions

Use it in a real workflow

Current controls and further reading

• 11. Typography rules and editorial context
• 12. Language policy and locale reference
• 24. Typography policy, protected profiles and semantic evidence

• Unicode: line breaking (UAX #14)