horizontal space

horizontal space

[Matthias Schleiff]

Hello,

I'm a newbe to ConTeXt but have allready done some documents in LaTeX. Want to switch to ConTeXt.

There's something that I neither find in the manuals nor at contextgarden. Maybe you could help?!

To realize my micro-typographic needs I'm using LaTeX-commands for defined, possibly non-breakable, horizontal spaces. Those are \, \enspace \quad and \hspace{0.25em} or \hspace*{0.125em}.
Now when testing with contextlive @ contextgarden the commands \, \enspace \quad seem to work. Are they plainTeX? But what about \hspace ?

It would be cool to have something like \hspace*{0.125em} in ConTeXt.
Is there something like it or a way to make it work or to define it on my own?

Any suggestions might be helpfull
Best regards, Matthias
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Re: horizontal space

[Hans Hagen]

Matthias Schleiff wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a newbe to ConTeXt but have allready done some documents in LaTeX. Want to switch to ConTeXt.
>
> There's something that I neither find in the manuals nor at contextgarden. Maybe you could help?!
>
> To realize my micro-typographic needs I'm using LaTeX-commands for defined, possibly non-breakable, horizontal spaces. Those are \, \enspace \quad and \hspace{0.25em} or \hspace*{0.125em}.
> Now when testing with contextlive @ contextgarden the commands \, \enspace \quad seem to work. Are they plainTeX? But what about \hspace ?
>
> It would be cool to have something like \hspace*{0.125em} in ConTeXt.
> Is there something like it or a way to make it work or to define it on my own?
>   

\definehspace[notthatbig][.123456em]
\definehspace[ratherbig] [12.3456em]

test \hspace[notthatbig] test \hspace[ratherbig] test

so, it's a symbolic definition 

vertical spacing is done with blank (and \defineblank) 

watch how hspace cleans up preceding spaces and ignores following ones 

Hans 

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