From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/73795 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Braslau Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Surprising changes in vers. 2012.01.11 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:33:11 +0100 Message-ID: <20120111163311.GB99455@iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr> References: <40754E6E-9F0D-4024-9958-F3B82F71CD4C@st.estfiles.de> <3394F5B3-400F-44B5-8022-676B1D900ED9@st.estfiles.de> <7B0266A5-56E4-477B-B324-C1F450CDF704@st.estfiles.de> <4F0DA970.8020909@wxs.nl> <20120111162449.GA99455@iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr> 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: dough.gmane.org 1326299576 6714 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2012 16:32:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:32:56 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 11 17:32:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rl16Z-00061F-Kb for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; 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country=FR; region=A3; city=Gif-sur-yvette; latitude=48.6833; longitude=2.1333; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.6833,2.1333&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eGkgwDDw - 671f5000b7ef - 20120111 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:73795 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________