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

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

[Tobias Burnus]

Hello,

(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.


In addition, I have the following problem. I downloaded the latest (?) 
ConTeXt - 2004.4.9 -, installed it in my $HOMETEXMF tree, added two 
symlinks to make it work with an old TDS tree texmf.cnf configuration, 
run texhash and fmtutil. TeX works rather nicely, except \setuppagersize.

Using \setuppapersize[a5][a4] or a5 a5 I get always one A4 page on a A4 
sheet of paper. Using [a5][a4,landscape] I get a A4 paper on a sheet of 
paper which is as wide and high as the height of an A4 paper.
Can anyone reproduce this? Or is this due to my configuration
(e.g. a file present in the system TEXMF tree which is not in $HOMETEXMF 
and gets included)?


Regards,

Tobias

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

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello Tobias,

> In addition, I have the following problem. I downloaded the latest (?)
> ConTeXt - 2004.4.9 -, installed it in my $HOMETEXMF tree, added two

That is the one I have here.

> Using \setuppapersize[a5][a4] or a5 a5 I get always one A4 page on a
> A4 sheet of paper. 

Use Captial paper sizes (A5 A4) and everything is fine.



Patrick

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

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:22 14/05/2004, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>(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 

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

[Peter Münster]

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

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

[Hans Hagen]

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