From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24111 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: extra space after variant Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:03:27 +0100 Message-ID: <4393599F.2020209@wxs.nl> References: <403A1895-626A-4617-94A7-784685A4765D@science.uva.nl> <439052AD.8020000@wxs.nl> <439093D7.6060406@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133730375 32227 80.91.229.2 (4 Dec 2005 21:06:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 04 22:06:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ej11G-0006tx-74 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:03:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53401281D; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:03:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32081-01-3; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:03:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517E812815; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:03:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA5512805 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:03:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32081-01-2 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:03:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3A812815 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:03:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 6350 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:09:04 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <439093D7.6060406@elvenkind.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24111 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Hans van der Meer wrote: >> >>> When I code: >>> abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} >>> I find extra space typeset between "abc" and "pqr". >>> >>> This extra space is absent when I code >>> abc {\variant[xyz]pqr} >>> Thus the space in the source between ] and pqr makes a difference >>> in the result. >>> >>> Clearly visible in: >>> abc {\variant[xyz] pqr} abc {\variant[xyz]pqr}\crlf >>> abc {\Var[xyz]pqr} abc {\Var[xyz] pqr}\crlf >>> >>> I would think that this should not happen. >>> >>> The whitespace goes away by inserting an \ignorespaces in the >>> variant- definition. >>> \def\variant[#1]% slow >>> {\dosetscaledfont >>> \expanded{\definedfont >>> [\truefontname{\fontstringA\fontstylesuffix\fontvariant >>> \fontstringA{#1}} >>> at \scaledfont]}\ignorespaces} >>> >>> >>> Still using version 2005-11-14, forget this if already corrected in >>> the latest version of the 30th. >> >> >> >> before we do that ... do others agree (taco, adam ...)? > > > I can't get the example to compile. Whatever I do, context insists > on creating SerifRegular.tfm through mktextfm (sigh). I'm too lazy > to figure out what is going on right now, so can someone create a > full minimal example, please? I'd like to check this with all > tracing on, because it hints are a problem deeper down somewhere. i simplified the code till it worked -) variants are Adam's speciality so he should provide the solution for the precize definition -) Hans