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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Does a "half-space" or small space exist in ConTeXt?
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 18:37:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54FC88F5.8060003@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.xu6kb3fmfkrasx@ishamid-pc>

On 3/8/2015 2:13 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> All the suggestions you have received are good, but ultimately you might
> want to look at the spaces that Unicode provides, for example 202F. Not
> sure sure which Unicode space character best suits your needs, but once
> you have determined that, you can map it to one of the commands
> suggested by others, or even define it to the exact width you want. For
> example, I use imacron (U+012B) so much that it clashes with other
> characters. So I map it to an alternate version that has a thinner macron:
>
> \defineactivecharacter ī {\fontchar{imacron.alt}}
>
> So what you want is a unicode space character that you can enter in your
> editor, then define it in ConTeXt to exactly what you want.

fyi: the list that Wolfgang shows with verbose space names ... these are 
in fact unicode characters.

Hans





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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-08 17:37 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
2015-03-08 13:13 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2015-03-08 17:37   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
     [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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