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 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 > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >