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By \defaultfontfeatures{PunctuationSpace=1.5} I set the space between sentences (to 1.5 * interword space, if I understand it). How can I manually insert this very space, if there is no sentence ending with a punctuation mark? This happens e.g. with \textquote[p.\,2}{This is a special quote.}? In the text it ends with "(p.2)", followed by interword space, whereas I want a space as between sentences.

I need a length like \PunctuationSpace, to be used after quotations etc. (\hspace{1\PunctuationSpace}).

% -*- mode: latex; TeX-engine: luatex; coding: utf-8; -*- \documentclass[ngerman]{scrartcl} \usepackage[main=ngerman,UKenglish,french]{babel} \usepackage[style=german,german=guillemets]{csquotes} \usepackage{luatextra} \defaultfontfeatures[\rmfamily,\sffamily,\ttfamily]{PunctuationSpace=1.5,% Ligatures={TeX,Common}} \usepackage{microtype} \begin{document} \nonfrenchspacing blablablablablabla \textquote[S.\,2]{This is a very special sentence, quoted from \textit{Special Sentences}.} \end{document}
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    your question would be a lot clearer if you provided an example document. are you using \xspace here as a random example command name or reference to the command of that name defined by the \xspace package (which doesn't seem relevant as far as I understood your question) and is \hlength a typo for \hspace ? You don't show a definition for \textquote but it could copy the spacefactor past the inserted (p 2) and so giv ean end of sentence space if the main argument ends with . Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 19:56
  • Before I re-write it: \xspace is from \usepackage{xspace}, \hlength should be \hspace, and \textquote is from \usepackage{csquotes}. Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 20:24
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    hmm I wrote the xspace package and I can't guess how you would use it in any way related to this question:-) Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 20:25

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it is saved in \fontdimen7\font:

\listfiles \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{csquotes} \begin{document} Some nonsense words \textquote[p.\,2]{This is a special quote.} Some nonsense. Some nonsense words \textquote[p.\,2]{This is a special quote.}\hspace{\fontdimen7\font} Some nonsense. \end{document}
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