Re: Questions/Comments

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 01:29 PM 9/11/2001 +0200, Marco Kuhlmann wrote:

>How can I play with different protrusion values? The named
>quotation marks are no single characters, but combinations, like
>
>     \def\lowerleftdoubleninequote{,,}
>But the protrusion information should be assigned to
>characters, right?

there is a way out by having a font with dummy chars and put that one at 
the boundary but i don't know how to make one -)

\setupsynonyms
>   [acronym]
>   [textstyle=versface]
>
>While this works fine in normal text, \subsection{\URL} goes
>nuts: It prints out versface instead of using it to switch to
>another font. Is this a bug or a feature? :-)

no, you can use \definealternativestyle [see font-ini and bet manual] to 
define a style that acts differently in normal text and section headers

>does not yield the desired effect, though:
>
>[concerning abbreviations with colon lookahead]
>
> > This is kind of tricky because capitalizing interferes with
> > look ahead. I can consider adding a hook but this is a
> > delicate process [not quickly hackable]
>
>I think it would be worth it, though. Not only German is
>concerned, and it is much more consistent to be able to type
>
>     We offer foo, bar, baz, \ETC. And gnus.   than
>     We offer foo, bar, baz, \ETC  And gnus.

hm, i can look into it later, since using real fake caps is an option 
thereby avoiding \kap

Hans
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