From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Does a "half-space" or small space exist in ConTeXt?
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 12:35:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A379F24B-32BF-42DA-95A7-04710CC838A0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5293B897-CF64-472D-9E45-EA6BEC594AF0@gmail.com>
> Am 08.03.2015 um 12:24 schrieb Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to use something like a "half-space" or small space in a situation where neither no space, nor a normal space is ideal.
> See the ME:
> ---------------------------------
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \setmainfont[Verdana]
> \setupbodyfont[10pt]
> \starttext
> On the third beat a 6th between bass and tenor, {\em \lohi{B}{g}}, moves to the octave {\em \lohi{A}{a} .
> \medskip
> On the third beat a 6th between bass and tenor, {\em \lohi{B}{g}} , moves to the octave {\em \lohi{A}{a}} .
> \stoptext
> --------------------------------
>
> Without a space after {\em \lohi{B}{g}}, the normal situation, the comma is too close to the B, (and the period too close to the A), suggesting some superscript.
> A normal space does not look nice (but if necessary I could live with it)
>
> Is there an intermediate size for a space somehow?
You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace.
BTW. The context version of \medskip is \blank[medium].
Wolfgang
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2015-03-08 11:24 Robert Blackstone
2015-03-08 11:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2015-03-08 12:45 ` Jörg Weger
2015-03-08 12:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-03-08 13:05 ` Jörg Weger
2015-03-08 13:02 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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2015-03-08 12:55 ` Robert Blackstone
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2015-03-09 20:48 ` Robert Blackstone
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