From: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Surprising changes in vers. 2012.01.11
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:33:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120111163311.GB99455@iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120111162449.GA99455@iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr>
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 05:24:51PM +0100, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:23:28PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >
> > indeed, and it's a bonus that ~ == nobreakspace (although I can imagine
> > that we'd get rid of it) but defining other macros in terms of active
> > characters is a bad idea
> >
> > (in fact one can use the unicode nbsp character)
> >
>
> I have always liked this TeX active character (~).
>
> As information for users of X11:
> setxkbmap -option nbsp:level2
> (and the equivalent in "xorg.conf" or "etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-init.fdi")
> gives nbsp as shift+space.
>
> On the subject of unicode characters,
> I just discovered the ":dig" command (diagraphs)
> under my favorite editor "vim"!
Follow-up:
:se list lcs=nbsp:~
makes me feel right at home with my traditional TeX usage...
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 12:22 Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 12:40 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 12:50 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 13:01 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 13:17 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-01-11 13:41 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 14:38 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 14:45 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-11 14:46 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-11 15:18 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 15:26 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 15:36 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-11 15:55 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-11 15:23 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 16:24 ` Alan Braslau
2012-01-11 16:33 ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2012-01-11 16:42 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 17:32 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-01-11 15:48 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 15:53 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 16:46 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 19:31 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-11 19:44 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 19:51 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-01-11 21:05 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 21:04 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-12 21:20 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-01-11 12:53 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-11 12:55 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-11 13:43 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-12 8:58 ` Mari Voipio
2012-01-12 9:10 ` luigi scarso
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