From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/87625 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Character and word spacing Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:29 +0200 Message-ID: <5387C2D9.6020007@wxs.nl> References: <53877934.5020302@rik.users.panix.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401406195 7140 80.91.229.3 (29 May 2014 23:29:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 23:29:55 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 30 01:29:49 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 1Wq9lc-0001Ha-RX for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886A91020C for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:48 +0200 (CEST) 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 ST5-gz5hN-+r for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A2810211 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC72101E7 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:39 +0200 (CEST) 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 EbLD4jpVp7bT for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ECF3101E2 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id s4TNTVdV027876 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:36 +0200 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 6.5a2) with ESMTP id 4356-1713362 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 01:29:29 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <53877934.5020302@rik.users.panix.com> 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: 06M7Xtv8Q - 944f033243d2 - 20140530 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 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:87625 Archived-At: On 5/29/2014 8:15 PM, Rik Kabel wrote: > I am setting some text from Geoffrey Dowding's /Finer Points in the > Spacing and Arrangement of Type/. I am trying to set it using his > recommendations. For those not familiar with his book, the key point is > that he promotes extremely tight spacing to achieve a uniform density > across the page in the belief that this leads to a pleasing presentation > and improved readability. > > Among his recommendations is that an opening single quote together with > the space preceding it should take up no more space than a normal word > space, and similarly following a closing single quote; that the space > after some punctuation be minimized (some of his commas appear to have > perhaps just a hairspace, following them); that the space between > punctuation and letters be adjusted according to the shape of the > letter; and that 'and' be replaced by '&' as necessary to improve word > spacing. While this last is probably beyond the scope of ConTeXt, I am > hoping that the first few might be managed through > \definecharacterspacing, \setupcharacterspacing, and \setcharacterspacing. > > Alas, I have found no documentation on this set of commands, and what I > see in the source is opaque. > > If you have pointers to the details of these commands, or other > suggestions for such typographic exercises, please let me know. you can mess with sfcodes: \starttext \input tufte \sfcode`\.100 \sfcode`\,100 \sfcode`\?100 \sfcode`\!100 \sfcode`\:100 \sfcode`\;100 \input tufte \dostepwiserecurse{`a}{`z}{1}{\sfcode#1=100\relax} \input tufte \dostepwiserecurse{"0}{"FFFF}{1}{\sfcode#1=100\relax} \input tufte \stoptext I'm pretty sure I would not read books typeset that way. replacing and by & can be done too but that would look even worse (for consistency one should then replace 'or' by | and even more can be saved by going sms: "wandering" becomes "w&ndering", and "according" becomes "acc|rding" plus the usual messing with digits probably, omitting all vowels would work out too for reader who like that compact typesetting Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________