Re: French, ? : ; !, and spacing, \setuppapersize problem

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 19:25 14/05/2004, Peter Münster wrote:
>On Fri, 14 May 2004, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> > >(Passing on a question.) Is there a simple methode to automatically add
> > >a thinspace before "?", "!", ":" and ";" as it is done commonly in
> > >French? This would make typing easier and would allow to change a
> > >thinspace into a normal space etc.
> >
> > \useencoding[ffr]
> >
> > \starttext
> >
> > \fr test: test
> >
> > \de test: test
> >
> > \stoptext
>
>Hello,
>thanks for this "ffr"-mode. I took a look into m-tryout.tex and
>enco-ffr.tex, but unfortunately I didn't find out where to trigger a
>thinspace instead of a full space before the colon.
>Could you help please?  (ConTeXt version is 2004.3.16)
>Cheers, Peter

deeply burried functionality:

\definehspace[fr][:][.25em]
\definehspace[fr][;][.25em]
\definehspace[fr][!][.25em]
\definehspace[fr][?][.25em]

\useencoding[ffr]

\starttext

\fr test: test

\stoptext

Hans