From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7796 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Patrick Gundlach" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Non breaking small space Date: 04 May 2002 22:49:40 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <87adrfljtn.fsf@gundla.ch> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398240 22379 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:37:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:37:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7796 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7796 Nigel King writes: Hi Nigel, > In LaTeX there is \, which is a small space which does not break easily at > the end of lines. It can be used as the space between say 10 and GHz. > Obviously I could use units but that seems to be a bit of a sledgehammer to > crack my nut. ConTeXt has |~| a small space but it breaks between lines. Is > there any solution that I have missed. You can define your own discretionaries like the |~| one: \definetextmodediscretionary , {\kern .1667 em} So now you can say 'My new calculator runs with 10|,|GHz'. See supp-lan.tex for more discretionaries. Patrick -- I'll fade into the darkness