From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/86825 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Different size points in ellipsis Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:13 +0100 Message-ID: <5335950D.7020603@wxs.nl> References: <20140328144512.48f6ccf4@cuisine.seix> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396020503 27787 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2014 15:28:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:28:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Mar 28 16:28:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTYht-0006Fg-GM for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885ED101F5; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:32 +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 zIIcPMgk9Og3; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FE1101EB; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DA7101EB for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:29 +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 OHMEa1dRNJti for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BBCA101EA for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id s2SFSGa6014944 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:16 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.103; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.3c2) with ESMTP id 8929-1713362 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:28:15 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20140328144512.48f6ccf4@cuisine.seix> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: ntg-context@ntg.nl, base:default, @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=Provincie Overijssel; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0VLH3sgxa - bfa57eeaae23 - 20140328 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:86825 Archived-At: On 3/28/2014 3:45 PM, St=E9phane Goujet wrote: > Hello again, > > > If you look at one of the images in my previous post (I attached it > here again), you may notice the ellipsis (that has 5 periods instead of > 3, but that is not my concern). Its last period is bigger, to indicate > the fusion of the ellipsis and the sentence final period. It does not > seem stupid to me, so, out of curiosity (I believe, in the end, I will > stick to the modern typography, even if it is more confusing), could > that be easily typeset with Context ? Either with a bigger final > period, or with a normal size final period and other smaller ones. I > guess the second way is better, for consistency with other periods in > other sentences. > > So far, I have defined ellipsis (all periods having the same size) as: > \unexpanded\def\ell{{\def\periodswidth{.4em}\periods[5]}} i'd keep the period constant and mess with the ellipses: \defineeffect [ellipses] [alternative=3Dboth,rulethickness=3D.5pt] test \starteffect[ellipses]\textellipsis\stopeffect . ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________