Re: luatex feature question/request

["Peter Münster" <pmlists@free.fr>]

On Fri, Apr 04 2008, Olivier Guéry wrote:
> >  You could also try to use the MkIV version.
> >
> >  from core-spa.mkiv
> >
> >  % experimental spacing
> >  %
> >  % test: oeps {\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]x: xx \bfd x: xx}
> >  oeps: test
> >
> 
> I see this when I search in the file but don't know how to try this…
> (I'm not a software ingineer at all, but a typography fan).
> It fact the « problem » for the moment is that I put space (and nbsp)
> in all my source documents (as all the french people, I think)… And it
> seems that ConTeXt can't deal with this for the moment.

It seems, that ConTeXt deals with that very well (attention, the following
code is utf8):

% engine=luatex

\starttext
\hsize1mm
nbsp : test

thinspace : test

normalspace : test
\stoptext

Between "nbsp" and ":" is a nonbreakable space, and indeed there is no
line-break.

Between "thinspace" and ":" is a nonbreakable thin-space, and also no
line-break.

Between "normalspace" and ":" is a normal space, so there is a line-break.

Does this look like what you want?

Cheers, Peter

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