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From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
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 14:02:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FC4853.3050904@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54FC4474.9000205@googlemail.com>

On 03/08/2015 01:45 PM, Jörg Weger wrote:
>  > You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace.
> 
> But \thinspace aka \, is a non-breaking space, isn’t it?

Hi Jörg,

I didn’t know, but it seems to be.

> 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”?

Well, I would call it a ”breaking thinspace”.

Adding \hskp0pt enables the breaking.

    \starttext
    \hsize\zeropoint
    a\,b

    a\,\hskip0pt{}b
    \stoptext

I hope it might help,

Pablo
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-08 13:02 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
2015-03-08 12:58     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-03-08 13:05       ` Jörg Weger
2015-03-08 13:02     ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2015-03-08 13:13 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2015-03-08 17:37   ` Hans Hagen
     [not found] <mailman.218.1425816298.2410.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2015-03-08 12:55 ` Robert Blackstone
2015-03-08 13:08   ` Wolfgang Schuster
     [not found] <mailman.220.1425820367.2410.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2015-03-08 22:19 ` Robert Blackstone
     [not found] <mailman.222.1425853052.2410.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2015-03-09 20:48 ` Robert Blackstone

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