Re: narrow space in "\ldots."

[Ryo Furue <furue@hawaii.edu>]

Hello Hans,

| > Hello ConTeXt folks,
| > I'm quite new to ConTeXt.  I like it.
| > It's way more systematic than LaTeX.
| > Here's my first question.  When omitting the last
| > part of  a sentence, I want four periods:
| >   This is a long sentence which\ldots.
| 
| which\unknown

Thanks for the answer!  It's close, but not quite.
First, I noticed that \unknown produces three dots, not four.
So, I tried "\unknown."  (See the attached.)  In this case,
There is a thin space between the word and the first dot,
so that the output looks like

   which . . . .

Convention says that the fist dot should look like a
sentence-ending period:

   which. . . .

Second, with "\unknown.", the last space is slightly,
just slightly, narrower than the preceding two.

I guess "\unknown" is designed to be an inter-sentence
ellipsis:

  This long sentence\unknown is complicated.

For this purpose, it's perfect.  It generates appropriate
spaces before and after the three dots.

Regards,
Ryo
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\starttext
Hello\ldots.  World.\ldots

Hello\unknown.  World.\unknown

Hello\unknown World.
\stoptext
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