From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42548 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: inter-word spacing (initials) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:53:25 -0700 Message-ID: <20080717075325487307.1231b7a6@gmail.com> References: <20080716192759510619.65d93fec@gmail.com> <608713BA-B690-4F2F-894E-3DD145795B02@princeton.edu> <20080717064618813277.b39e92e5@gmail.com> <115224fb0807170701od1af866gbb083290b3f633ce@mail.gmail.com> 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 1216308637 16410 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2008 15:30:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:37 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 17 17:31:24 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 1KJVRs-0003TL-T0 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:31:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735361FA4C; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:30:22 +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 18346-02; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:28:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A6FD1FCD3; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:54:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE111FCBB for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:54:41 +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 12324-03-2 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:53:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.145]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06441FCB0 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:53:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 9so612952qwj.38 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.142.237.19 with SMTP id k19mr652288wfh.86.1216306409280; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from d66-183-32-7.bchsia.telus.net ( [66.183.32.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 29sm9583445wfg.0.2008.07.17.07.53.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:53:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <115224fb0807170701od1af866gbb083290b3f633ce@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.5.7 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:42548 Archived-At: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > 2008/7/17 David : >> 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?) Thanks David ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________