From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22005 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ulrich Dirr" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: RE: new for french users Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:35:45 +0200 Organization: Art & Satz Message-ID: <0ML29c-1E61Pm3RPw-00017m@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> References: <43051FCE.50204@wxs.nl> Reply-To: ud@art-satz.de, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124437312 24459 80.91.229.2 (19 Aug 2005 07:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:41:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Aug 19 09:41:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E61Uh-0004bs-Tl for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:40:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90DDA127F9; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:40:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03173-03; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:40:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85758127FF; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:36:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18519127FF for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:35:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03141-03-3 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:35:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24682127FE for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:35:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from p549880ED.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.152.128.237] (helo=DOMINUS) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML29c-1E61Pm3RPw-00017m; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:35:46 +0200 Original-To: "'mailing list for ConTeXt users'" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <43051FCE.50204@wxs.nl> Thread-Index: AcWkVM8tD7Y3Xgr8T92Z5NYAxCtOjwAO397w X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:0df3a3f0652342c34c6927924e383942 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22005 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:22005 On Friday, August 19, 2005 1:55 AM Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > There are a couple of new features in the next version of pdftex. One of > them is the ability to automatically add a kern before punctuation, > which is important for french. So ... we can get rid of active : ; ! and > ? characters which is a good thing. > > I'll upload a version that supports this. The handling is called > prespacing and the values are experimental. A test could look like: > > \definefontsynonym[myfont][Serif][handling=prespacing] > \definefont[whatever][myfont sa 1] > \setupalign[spacing] % nospacing > > \whatever look at this: we now have a proper spacing feature and, hurray, > get rid of active punctuation! > > but for document wide behaviour one should apply handling at the typeface > level. > > You can turn it on/off with the setupalign command (or the > align=... k/v > in other commands) > > A windows test binary can be found at: > > http://pdftex.sarovar.org/djgpp/ > > just move the exe and pool file to the right place and make a format. > > Hans Are these new support files already at pragma site? Which files do I need? Ulrich