From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Strange bug with \ in footnotes
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:45:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A0742C4-FB61-456D-8826-66177DBFC3FF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BBC2FA97-176B-4670-BADF-25A76B0DF630@gmail.com>
Am 05.08.2012 um 09:28 schrieb Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>:
> Hi Aditya,
>
> On 4 août 2012, at 20:59, Aditya Mahajan <aditya.mahajan@mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>> […]
>> Minimal example (There should be a linebreak after \)
>
> Is it not « \\ » that should give a line break? Indeed this gives a line break:
> \starttext
> Someone\footnote{Prof.\\ ABC}
> \stoptext
>
> However, you are right to observe that
>
> Someone\footnote{Prof.\
> ABC}
>
> results in an error with the latest beta, while
>
> Someone\footnote{Prof.\ ABC}
>
> does not (and of course there is no line break neither, the « .\ » gives only a normal space after the dot).
The “\ ” command gives a control space which is necessary when you use \nonfrenchspacing
(which is normally set with \setuplanguage[…][spacing=broad]). What \\ produce depends
on the environment and can be a line break, a space or something different.
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-04 18:59 Aditya Mahajan
2012-08-05 7:28 ` Otared Kavian
2012-08-05 7:45 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2012-08-05 9:32 ` Hans Hagen
2012-08-05 10:27 ` Hans Hagen
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