Block adding spaces before colon (French language feature) in certain meta data cases

novelwriter/gui/doceditor.py

@@ -1982,12 +1982,14 @@ class GuiDocEditor(QTextEdit):
 
         tCheck = tInsert
         if tCheck in self.mainConf.fmtPadBefore:
-            nDelete = max(nDelete, 1)
-            tInsert = self._typPadChar + tInsert
+            if self.allowSpaceBeforeColon(theText, tCheck):
+                nDelete = max(nDelete, 1)
+                tInsert = self._typPadChar + tInsert
 
         if tCheck in self.mainConf.fmtPadAfter:
-            nDelete = max(nDelete, 1)
-            tInsert = tInsert + self._typPadChar
+            if self.allowSpaceBeforeColon(theText, tCheck):
+                nDelete = max(nDelete, 1)
+                tInsert = tInsert + self._typPadChar
 
         if nDelete > 0:
             theCursor.movePosition(QTextCursor.Left, QTextCursor.KeepAnchor, nDelete)
@@ -1995,6 +1997,20 @@ class GuiDocEditor(QTextEdit):
 
         return
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _allowSpaceBeforeColon(text, char):
+        """Special checker function only used by the insert space
+        feature for French, Spanish, etc, so it doesn't insert a
+        sapce before colons in meta data lines.
+        """
+        if char == ":" and len(text) > 1:
+            if text[0] == "@":
+                return False
+            if text[0] == "%":
+                if text[1:].lstrip()[:9].lower() == "synopsis:":
+                    return False
+        return True
+
     def _updateHeaders(self, checkPos=False, checkLevel=False):
         """Update the headers record and return True if anything
         changed, if a check flag was provided.