still a bug with compressed linenotes and no compressseparator

["Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos@web.de>]

Dear Hans,

many thanks for the latest beta, that fixes the line range numbering.

I’m afraid there are still two issues with compressed linenotes when
the compressseparator is missing.

Having linenotes from the same line separated with only blank space is
a standard practice in critical editions. I’m not a philologist and I
don’t have access to a library on a regular basis. If samples from
http://context.aanhet.net/epen2007/share/idris/cr-apparatus.pdf are
allowed, from three possible examples, figures 4.2 and 4.4 only include
blank space as separator for “compressed” linenotes and figure 4.6
includes a separator (||).

Here a sample (I know there is no hyphenation on body text) that shows
the two issues I’m having problems with:

    \setuppapersize[A6]
    \setuppagenumbering[location=,]
    \definelinenote[Critico]
    \setupnote[Critico][paragraph=yes]
    \setupnotation[Critico][alternative=serried,
    compress=yes, compressseparator=, width=broad]
    \newcounter\Contadorvar
    \def\apcritico#1#2{\increment\Contadorvar%
        \startCritico[Varia:\Contadorvar]{#2}#1%
        \stopCritico[Varia:\Contadorvar]}
    \starttext
    \startlinenumbering
    \dorecurse{22}{\apcritico{origin}{variant}
    \apcritico{not original,}{variant} }
    \stoplinenumbering
    \stoptext

If compressseparator is suppressed (such as in the sample), the space
before the missing separator is removed, but the space after the
separator remains. This default is buggy when the compressed
linenote starts at the beginning of the line (as it is the case on lines
4-9 in the apparatus).

But even with linenotes starting at other places in the critical
apparatus, there is another issue: compressed linenotes have more
blank space before than uncompressed ones. I think this might be
visually misleading in some cases.

I think there is a simple way to solve both issues: if
compressseparator is set to none, the space after should be removed in
all cases.

Would it be possible to implement this?

Many thanks for your help,


Pablo
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