From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: character spacing for guillemets in English
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 16:16:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A6B8C382-8712-4DE5-A16E-91AA6F6CA69E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFMOkGXPVKo6S-3swXf0CJe9GQp-7NaPQRVjSkGdp55jcvrFaA@mail.gmail.com>
Am 02.06.2013 um 14:32 schrieb Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@gmail.com>:
> Is there a global way to insert a very thin (ca 1pt) unbreakable space before a right guillemet and after a left guillemet when the main language and character spacing are English, so that “«” and “»” in my source file are processed properly?
>
> The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed characters (typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for these two characters but have not been able to figure out how to do this from the ConTeXt source files.
\definecharacterspacing [alan]
\setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00AB] [right=.1,alternative=1]
\setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00BB] [left=.1,alternative=1]
\starttext
text «text» text
\setcharacterspacing[alan]
text «text» text
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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2013-06-02 12:32 Alan Bowen
2013-06-02 14:16 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-06-02 18:42 ` Alan Bowen
2013-06-03 8:00 ` Alan BRASLAU
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