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From: "Stéphane Goujet" <stephane.goujet@wanadoo.fr>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Different size points in ellipsis
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:05:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140328170549.3b5b21dd@cuisine.seix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5335950D.7020603@wxs.nl>

Le Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:13 +0100,
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> a écrit :

> On 3/28/2014 3:45 PM, Stéphane Goujet wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> >
> >    If you look at one of the images in my previous post (I attached
> > it here again), you may notice the ellipsis (that has 5 periods
> > instead of 3, but that is not my concern). Its last period is
> > bigger, to indicate the fusion of the ellipsis and the sentence
> > final period. It does not seem stupid to me, so, out of curiosity
> > (I believe, in the end, I will stick to the modern typography, even
> > if it is more confusing), could that be easily typeset with
> > Context ? Either with a bigger final period, or with a normal size
> > final period and other smaller ones. I guess the second way is
> > better, for consistency with other periods in other sentences.
> >
> >    So far, I have defined ellipsis (all periods having the same
> > size) as: \unexpanded\def\ell{{\def\periodswidth{.4em}\periods[5]}}
> 
> i'd keep the period constant and mess with the ellipses:
> 
> \defineeffect [ellipses] [alternative=both,rulethickness=.5pt]
> 
> test \starteffect[ellipses]\textellipsis\stopeffect .

  Thanks, I did not know about \starteffect.

  But this make *bigger* periods for the ellipsis, and when I try
smaller values for /rulethickness/, it does not go below the size of
the normal period (perhaps the limit is even a little bit larger than
the normal period size, something like 0.3pt), no matter how small a
value I use.
  
  Higher values scale correctly.


Stéphane.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-28 14:45 Stéphane Goujet
2014-03-28 15:28 ` Hans Hagen
2014-03-28 17:05   ` Stéphane Goujet [this message]

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