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From: Bruce Horrocks <ntg@scorecrow.com>
To: ntg-context mailing list <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: damien@thiriet.web4me.fr
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: whitespace inside synonym
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 11:08:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6A1B699C-0885-4238-9005-3CAA15C4FDDC@scorecrow.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <95b7c737c67ae79bd3112d0171e1a8d8@thiriet.web4me.fr>



> On 31 Dec 2024, at 17:18, Damien Thiriet via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using the synonym mechanizm to design a glossary for my pupils.
> I am stuck with this: how can I insert a whitespace inside a synonym definition?
> 
> What I achieved yet is:
> 
> \definesynonyms [vocabulaire] [vocabulaire] [\LaDef]
> \starttext
> 
> 
> \vocabulaire{Unionpersonnelle}{Deux États sont en union personnelle lorsqu’ils ont le même souverain}
> 
> \Unionpersonnelle\
> \placelistofvocabulaire
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> I would like to typeset Union personnelle, without inserting a UTF-8 non breakable space.
> I tried {{Union personnelle}}, but don't know how may I escape the space in the macro.
> The answer may lay in lowlevel-macro, but I couldn't find it.

Not sure this helps you much but there is:

\definesynonyms [vocabulaire] [vocabulaire] [\LaDef]
\starttext
\vocabulaire[UP]{Union personnelle}{Deux États sont en union personnelle lorsqu’ils ont le même souverain}

\UP\
\placelistofvocabulaire

\stoptext

—
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK

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  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-02 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-31 17:18 [NTG-context] " Damien Thiriet via ntg-context
2025-01-02 11:08 ` Bruce Horrocks [this message]
2025-01-02 11:29   ` [NTG-context] " Damien Thiriet via ntg-context

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