Hello all,

Playing with define/setup/set characterspacing, I have come across some odd, perhaps buggy, behavior. This applies to both MkIV 2020.11.19 11:23 and LMTX 2020.11.19 11:28.

The problem is that character spacing is not effected for the left side of the comma character. It is handled as expected for other characters that I have tested, but I have not performed extensive tests.

Example code:

\definecharacterspacing[Test]
\setupcharacterspacing [Test] ["002C] [left =.25,right=1,alternative=1] % ,
\setupcharacterspacing [Test] ["0065] [left=0.5,right=1,alternative=1] % e
\setupcharacterspacing [Test] ["003B] [left=0.5,right=1,alternative=1] % e
\startTEXpage[offset=1em]
abc; def, g

\setcharacterspacing[Test]abc; def, g
\stopTEXpage

Output:

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Rik