Re: spanish symbols for interrogation and exclamation

[Ciro Soto <ciro@kavyata.com>]

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I didn't understand Hans's instructions. What should I do?

Mojka's solution worked fine.
I used
\def\qd{\questiondown}
to shorten the keyword.
c



On 12/23/05, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> >Ciro Soto wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi team:
> >>
> >> How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down?
> >> also
> >> How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up-side
> down?
> >> thank you
> >> ciro
> >>
> >>
> >
> >\enableregime[utf] % for utf-8, may be something else as well
> >(depending on editor)
> >\starttext
> >You can write \exclamdown\ or � and \questiondown\ or �
> >\stoptext
> >
> >
> that's not comfortable for spanish users, so ... let's hook it into
> specifics:
>
> \starttext
>
> \startlanguagespecifics[fr]
>     \definetextmodediscretionary :
> {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{:}:}
>     \definetextmodediscretionary ;
> {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{;};}
>     \definetextmodediscretionary ?
> {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{?}?}
>     \definetextmodediscretionary !
> {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{!}!}
> \stoplanguagespecifics
>
> % goes to enco-ffr
>
> \startlanguagespecifics[es]
>     \definetextmodediscretionary ? {\prewordbreak\questiondown}
>     \definetextmodediscretionary ! {\prewordbreak\exclamdown}
> \stoplanguagespecifics
>
> spanish|?| spanish|!|
>
> \hyphenatedword{\es spanish|?|\relax}
> \hyphenatedword{\es spanish|!|\relax}
>
> \hyphenatedword{spanish|?|\relax}
> \hyphenatedword{spanish|!|\relax}
>
> \hyphenatedword{\fr spanish|?|\relax}
> \hyphenatedword{\fr spanish|!|\relax}
>
> \stoptext
>
> \mainlanguage[es] Hey Mojca, does this look better|?|
>
> (the |??| is always available)
>
> i'll add this to the distribution
>
> Hans
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