From: "Stefan Müller" <warrence.stm@gmx.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Non-stretching or slow-stretching spaces?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:55:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6BA936.2020600@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D69CCE7.7020800@googlemail.com>
Hi!
On 27.02.2011 05:02, S Barmeier wrote:
> I was wondering if there are any kind of spaces which (partly) fix the
> spacing between characters. For example, typesetting "Chapter 1", I
> would like to keep the space from stretching at the same rate as the
> surrounding spaces (just like ck ligatures in old German texts would be
> prevented from stretching, or the space in do n't (sic) in early 20th
> century American texts).
>
> I currently use
>
Did you mix up those two?
> "\ " to prevent a line break
I don't think that this prevents a line break, at least not in MkIV. You
could use ~ as in "don't~break~here".
> "~" to prevent extra space after a period
You can set this globally [1] (if I understand you correctly). If you
only want to use it at some places use "\ " as in "i.e.\ ".
[1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/French_spacing
HTH,
Stefan
> \,
> \;
> etc. as fractions(?) of the normal space (i.e. they change at the same
> rate as the normal space when stretched)
>
> Are there any other types of spaces I should be aware of? I would be
> most grateful for any comments, especially concerning the existence of a
> slow-stretching (or non-stretching) space...
>
> Thank you,
> Severin
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2011-02-27 3:37 ` Spacing for unnumbered equations S Barmeier
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