From: "Jörg Weger" <joerg73.muc@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Does a "half-space" or small space exist in ConTeXt?
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 13:45:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FC4474.9000205@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A379F24B-32BF-42DA-95A7-04710CC838A0@gmail.com>
> You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace.
>
But \thinspace aka \, is a non-breaking space, isn’t it?
Is there a way to let it break a line if needed in certain circumstances
or is there something else like a “non-non-breaking thinspace”?
Greetings Jörg
On 08.03.2015 12:35, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>> Am 08.03.2015 um 12:24 schrieb Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to use something like a "half-space" or small space in a situation where neither no space, nor a normal space is ideal.
>> See the ME:
>> ---------------------------------
>> \usemodule[simplefonts]
>> \setmainfont[Verdana]
>> \setupbodyfont[10pt]
>> \starttext
>> On the third beat a 6th between bass and tenor, {\em \lohi{B}{g}}, moves to the octave {\em \lohi{A}{a} .
>> \medskip
>> On the third beat a 6th between bass and tenor, {\em \lohi{B}{g}} , moves to the octave {\em \lohi{A}{a}} .
>> \stoptext
>> --------------------------------
>>
>> Without a space after {\em \lohi{B}{g}}, the normal situation, the comma is too close to the B, (and the period too close to the A), suggesting some superscript.
>> A normal space does not look nice (but if necessary I could live with it)
>>
>> Is there an intermediate size for a space somehow?
>
> You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace.
>
> BTW. The context version of \medskip is \blank[medium].
>
> Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-08 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-08 11:24 Robert Blackstone
2015-03-08 11:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-03-08 12:45 ` Jörg Weger [this message]
2015-03-08 12:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-03-08 13:05 ` Jörg Weger
2015-03-08 13:02 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-03-08 13:13 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2015-03-08 17:37 ` Hans Hagen
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2015-03-08 12:55 ` Robert Blackstone
2015-03-08 13:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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2015-03-08 22:19 ` Robert Blackstone
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2015-03-09 20:48 ` Robert Blackstone
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