From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6729 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ssharp / spatium Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:53:09 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020129205054.02af60a0@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020128121234.03f364a8@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20020128121234.03f364a8@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397243 13201 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:20:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Henning Hraban Ramm In-Reply-To: <200201281854.g0SIsFt01295@nathir.fiee.lan> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6729 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6729 At 07:54 PM 1/28/2002 +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > >BTW: Is there a spatium (like \, in LaTeX)? > > > > And what is \, supposed to do? And .. is that a hack or something > > typographically correct? > >It's a typographical "must", not a hack! >It's a little unbreakable fixed-width space, about a quarter of an em; you ok, that's not a hack, but the \, looks like one -) >need it to organize numbers like: >Telefon (07\,89) 6\,78\,90 >Konto 12\,345\,678 >And even between a number and a unit should be no space, but a spatium: >123\,m -- 100\,\% -- 56\,\euro so, it's a thinspace, well then you're already served by what|~|a|~|thin|~|space Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-pod.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------