Re: inter-word spacing (initials)

From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: inter-word spacing (initials)
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:26:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0807180826mb31b978n6320bd5f9afbe2dc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717075325487307.1231b7a6@gmail.com>

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM, David <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> 2008/7/17 David <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>:
>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, David. I tried
>>>>
>>>> \starttext
>>>> A. E. Samuel\crlf
>>>> A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
>>>> A.~E.~Samuel
>>>>
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>> and can see no difference (ConTeXt  ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The
>>>> tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem is that I
>>>> publish a journal in which the bibliography is punctuated mainly by
>>>> "." Introducing tildes (which make spaces non-breaking) would affect
>>>> the line-breaking negatively.
>>>
>>> Oh - sorry about that.
>>>
>>> What happens if you use your preferred way, but add the command
>>> \fixedspaces somewhere previously in the document?
>>>
>>> I've discovered that this command is now required to get either the \ .
>>> or the ~. to have any effect for me. The problem is, I don't know how
>>> to turn it off afterwards. :-)
>>
>> You can't, there is no command to reset it but this should do it.
>>
>> \def\variablespaces
>>   {\letcatcodecommand \ctxcatcodes `\~ \nonbreakablespace}
>
>
> Thanks Wolfgang. I prefer to have this behaviour available all the
> time, and I don't understand why anyone would want it turned off - just
> wanted to apologize for giving incomplete information.
>
> (Any idea why \fixedspaces has been changed from default to optional?)

What do you mean with this, enabling \fixedspaces by default would
be a stupid decision because ~ would now insert only a space with
the width of "0" and not the width from a normal space.

Wolfgang
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