Re: inter-word spacing (initials)

From: Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: inter-word spacing (initials)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <608713BA-B690-4F2F-894E-3DD145795B02@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080716192759510619.65d93fec@gmail.com>

Thanks, David. I tried

\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel

\stoptext

and can see no difference (ConTeXt  ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The  
tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem is that I  
publish a journal in which the bibliography is punctuated mainly by  
“.” Introducing tildes (which make spaces non-breaking) would affect  
the line-breaking negatively.

Alan

On Jul 16, 2008, at 22;27,59 , David wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:30:19 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> I have the latest ConTeXt and  am using mkii.
>>
>> One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by
>> typing “.\<space>”, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the
>> inter-word spacing in
>>
>> \starttext
>> A. E. Samuel\crlf
>> A.\ E.\ Samuel
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> If the is a difference here, I am having trouble seeing it; and on a
>> typeset page, the gaps after the initials just seem too big.
>>
>> In general, I find that the spacing after certain characters ---e.g.,
>> “)”---has been increased of late. Is this in fact the case? Or should
>> I go back to my old glasses?
>
> Have you tried:
>
> \starttext
> A. E. Samuel\crlf
> A.~E.~Samuel
>
> \stoptext
>
> ?
>
> Last time I tried, this one worked for me.
>
> David
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