Re: inter-word spacing (initials)

["Charles P. Schaum" <verbo.solo@sbcglobal.net>]

Alan,

If you wand quick and dirty because you are against a hard deadline, use
inline math mode and insert negative space $\!$ AFTER the x. and
IMMEDIATELY BEFORE the next bit. You could also define a macro \negspace
to do it as well:

\def\negspace{$\!$}

so that

x, x. \negspace x x

will yield the spacing that

x, x.\ x x

ought to. It's an UGLY hack, but you'd be surprised at how ugly I hacked
my own thesis in LaTeX to get it converted to Word and get it in on
time. The very memory is traumatic.

Charles

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:57 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
> I apologize to all, but circumstances oblige me to pick up a very  
> pedestrian thread for the third time.
> 
> As Peter Münster noted: in the following test-file
> 
> \starttext
> x. x, x x\crlf
> x, x. x x\crlf
> x,\ x.\ x\ x\crlf
> x.\ x,\ x\ x\crlf
> X. X, X X\crlf
> X, X. X X\crlf
> X,\ X.\ X\ X\crlf
> X.\ X,\ X\ X
> \stoptext
> 
> you see 2 bugs:
> 
> - in MKIV there is no bigger space after "x."
> - in MKII the space after "x.\ " is a big one
> 
> The problem remains in ConTeXt  ver: 2008.07.31 16:30 for MKII (which  
> I am using). I am do not know if here have been any changes in MKIV.
> 
> Is there a fix for this in the works?  I am about to publish a series  
> of pages which will look vastly better if this is fixed.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
> 
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