From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/73796 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Surprising changes in vers. 2012.01.11 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:42:38 +0100 Message-ID: <4F0DBBFE.6070004@wxs.nl> References: <40754E6E-9F0D-4024-9958-F3B82F71CD4C@st.estfiles.de> <3394F5B3-400F-44B5-8022-676B1D900ED9@st.estfiles.de> <7B0266A5-56E4-477B-B324-C1F450CDF704@st.estfiles.de> <4F0DA970.8020909@wxs.nl> <20120111162449.GA99455@iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr> <20120111163311.GB99455@iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326300233 12228 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2012 16:43:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:43:53 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 11 17:43:49 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rl1H9-0003kk-Aa for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:43:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0BFCB1F0; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:43:46 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qIv7wD17norY; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:43:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31789CB1E7; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:43:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06ADCB1E7 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:43:38 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id UJArNTdDCcQQ for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:43:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (filter4-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.72]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B0BCB1E6 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:43:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id q0BGhN9H024457 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:43:23 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 7387-1713362 for multiple; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:43:15 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: <20120111163311.GB99455@iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 03GkgHnHb - cfd78e7473e5 - 20120111 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.72 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:73796 Archived-At: On 11-1-2012 17:33, Alan Braslau wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 05:24:51PM +0100, Alan Braslau wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:23:28PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: >>> >>> indeed, and it's a bonus that ~ == nobreakspace (although I can imagine >>> that we'd get rid of it) but defining other macros in terms of active >>> characters is a bad idea >>> >>> (in fact one can use the unicode nbsp character) >>> >> >> I have always liked this TeX active character (~). >> >> As information for users of X11: >> setxkbmap -option nbsp:level2 >> (and the equivalent in "xorg.conf" or "etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-init.fdi") >> gives nbsp as shift+space. >> >> On the subject of unicode characters, >> I just discovered the ":dig" command (diagraphs) >> under my favorite editor "vim"! > > Follow-up: > > :se list lcs=nbsp:~ > > makes me feel right at home with my traditional TeX usage... my favourite editor shows a nice orange blob when it sees a non breakable space Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________