[NTG-context] Re: full-width Chinese comma (U+FF0C) and ordinary comma (U+002C) in Chinese texts

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

mf schrieb am 14.11.2024 um 17:45:
> Hello,
>
> I'm typesetting a bibliography with some Chinese books that have both 
> the English translation and the original title in Chinese ideograms.
>
> The Chinese titles contain both full-width commas (U+FF0C) and 
> ordinary commas (U+002C), followed by spaces.
>
> Full-width comma has a wide glyph that incorporates some space on the 
> right side; I read on Wikipedia it's a mistake putting a space after it.
>
> THE PROBLEM
> ConTeXt does not break a line after a full-width comma (even inside a 
> "{\cn ... }" group), while it does with an ordinary comma, followed by 
> a space.
> When there are only full-width commas, sometimes I'll get overfull 
> boxes, because ConTeXt finds no feasible breakpoints.
>
> I'm tempted to replace all the full-width commas with ordinary commas 
> followed by a space. Is it possible, or is it a mistake?
>
> Or, how do I tell ConTeXt that breaks can occur after full-width commas?

Use \setscript[hanzi] to enable linebreaking for chinese.

Wolfgang
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