New answers tagged ponctuation
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Un vent d'or is part of the sentence. It can't be removed so is not a proposition incise which would have been a use case for a tiret cadratin.
To mark a pause, points de suspensions (ellipsis) are commonly used:
puis… un vent d'or.
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Yes before a colon, a (thin) space is always expected.
Note that before other two-stroke punctuation marks (semicolon, exclamation and question mark), when rendering the text on a system that doesn't make a difference between a thin space and a regular space (typically web pages), the norm differs between Québec and France.
The former one tells to use no ...
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Yes, you have to insert a space before:
: colon
; semicolon
! exclamation mark
? question mark
» right quotation mark
and a space after:
« left quotation mark
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