character spacing for guillemets in English

character spacing for guillemets in English

[Alan Bowen]

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Is there a global way to insert a very thin (ca 1pt) unbreakable space
before a right guillemet and after a left guillemet when the main language
and character spacing are English, so that “«” and “»”  in my source
file are processed properly?

The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed characters
(typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for
these two characters but have not been able to figure out how to do this
from the ConTeXt source files.


Alan

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Re: character spacing for guillemets in English

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 02.06.2013 um 14:32 schrieb Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@gmail.com>:

> Is there a global way to insert a very thin (ca 1pt) unbreakable space before a right guillemet and after a left guillemet when the main language and character spacing are English, so that “«” and “»”  in my source file are processed properly? 
> 
> The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed characters (typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for these two characters but have not been able to figure out how to do this from the ConTeXt source files.

\definecharacterspacing [alan]

\setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00AB] [right=.1,alternative=1]
\setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00BB] [left=.1,alternative=1]

\starttext

text «text» text

\setcharacterspacing[alan]

text «text» text

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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Re: character spacing for guillemets in English

[Alan Bowen]

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Thanks, Wolfgang. That is a great help: it works perfectly and saves my day.

All best, Alan


On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Am 02.06.2013 um 14:32 schrieb Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@gmail.com>:
>
> > Is there a global way to insert a very thin (ca 1pt) unbreakable space
> before a right guillemet and after a left guillemet when the main language
> and character spacing are English, so that “«” and “»”  in my source file
> are processed properly?
> >
> > The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed characters
> (typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for
> these two characters but have not been able to figure out how to do this
> from the ConTeXt source files.
>
> \definecharacterspacing [alan]
>
> \setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00AB] [right=.1,alternative=1]
> \setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00BB] [left=.1,alternative=1]
>
> \starttext
>
> text «text» text
>
> \setcharacterspacing[alan]
>
> text «text» text
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
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Re: character spacing for guillemets in English

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 16:16:04 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Am 02.06.2013 um 14:32 schrieb Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@gmail.com>:
> 
> > Is there a global way to insert a very thin (ca 1pt) unbreakable space before a right guillemet and after a left guillemet when the main language and character spacing are English, so that “«” and “»”  in my source file are processed properly? 
> > 
> > The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed characters (typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for these two characters but have not been able to figure out how to do this from the ConTeXt source files.
> 
> \definecharacterspacing [alan]
> 
> \setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00AB] [right=.1,alternative=1]
> \setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00BB] [left=.1,alternative=1]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> text «text» text
> 
> \setcharacterspacing[alan]
> 
> text «text» text
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> Wolfgang

Or {\fr\quotation{text}}...

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