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From: Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re[2]: Reimplementing xspace
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:23:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537520196.20020118122316@bigfoot.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020117231249.GA1654@localhost>

Friday, January 18, 2002 Marco Kuhlmann wrote:

MK> * Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com> (2002-01-18 00:05:17 +0100):

>> ConTeXt does this and more than this (i.e. not only hanging
>> punctuation but hanging everything. You need pdfTeX to run
>> this, though.)

MK> It does do left margins? Cool, I didn't know that. But I had
MK> trouble convincing it to put the German quotes ,, '' in the
MK> margin. Hans said that this was because they are defined as
MK> double commas in ConTeXt, rather than as single letters.

Indeed that's the reason: such combinations like ,, and '' can only
hang properly if (1) they map to a single glyph (either by font
ligs or by intervention of the macro package) and
(2) there are appropriate \lpcode, \rpcode associated with the
resulting glyph.

I wonder if something could be done by changing the left
protruding factor of the comma, since \lowerleftdoubleninequote
maps to ,, and not a single glyph, but I'm not sure about it.

Encoding/regime mappings are indeed one of the weak spots of
ConTeXt (it figures, considering how recent they are, and how
boring it is to build the relevant tables ...). I plan to dedicate
some time to this stuff soon (say, in two weeks' time).

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-18 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-17 12:43 Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-01-17 22:03 ` Marco Kuhlmann
2002-01-17 23:05   ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-01-17 23:12     ` Marco Kuhlmann
2002-01-18 11:23       ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2002-01-20 20:12         ` Re[2]: " Hans Hagen
2002-01-20 20:09       ` Hans Hagen
2002-01-20 19:50   ` Hans Hagen
2002-01-20 20:35 ` Hans Hagen
2002-01-21 14:37   ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta

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