From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42536 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: inter-word spacing (initials) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:56:25 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0807170456p7e4961capf131adfcbba28303@mail.gmail.com> References: <9DEDAF9D-97EF-4230-AB76-61D8E9B5A332@princeton.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216296058 32544 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2008 12:00:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:00:58 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 17 14:01:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJSB6-0003Jn-3U for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:01:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A35581FD7D; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:00:49 +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 23932-01-2; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:00:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C961FD4E; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:00:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502C81FD4E for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:00:03 +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 23932-01 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:59:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.185]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC991FC27 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:56:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w4so3410079tib.14 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.108.3 with SMTP id k3mr305130ybm.159.1216295785855; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:56:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.113.9 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:56:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9DEDAF9D-97EF-4230-AB76-61D8E9B5A332@princeton.edu> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42536 Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Alan Bowen wrote: > I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii. > > One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by > typing ".\", but this no longer seems to work. Compare the > inter-word spacing in > > \starttext > A. E. Samuel\crlf > A.\ E.\ Samuel > > \stoptext > > If the is a difference here, I am having trouble seeing it; and on a > typeset page, the gaps after the initials just seem too big. > > In general, I find that the spacing after certain characters ---e.g., > ")"---has been increased of late. Is this in fact the case? Or should > I go back to my old glasses? AFAIK the '\ ' after the dot should prevent to stretch the space. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________