From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42595 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Bowen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: inter-word spacing (initials) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:38:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080718192231.GA23494@gaston.couberia.bzh> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216413621 15294 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 20:40:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:40:21 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 18 22:41:08 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJwlF-0007oS-8P for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34D9F1FC1A; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:40:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11535-04-3; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:39:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07B41FC11; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:39:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 043F01FBF9 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:39:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11633-03-4 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:38:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from gold.muskoka.com (gold.muskoka.com [209.91.173.234]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E691FC57 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:38:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hunt-ppp-66-186-79-122.vianet.ca (hunt-ppp-66-186-79-122.vianet.ca [66.186.79.122]) by gold.muskoka.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C40C3A1E for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:38:34 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20080718192231.GA23494@gaston.couberia.bzh> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42595 Archived-At: Thanks, Peter. I was wondering about MKIV. (Switching is on my summer = =93to do=94 list.) Best, Alan On Jul 18, 2008, at 15;22,31 , Peter M=FCnster wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18 2008, Alan Bowen wrote: > >> In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence >> is less that that after a period at the end of a sentence. Since the >> days of Plain TeX, one achieved the proper spacing after an intra- >> sentence period by entering =93.\=94. My problem is that this no >> longer seems to work with recent versions of ConTeXt/MKII: =93. = >> \=94 >> does not seem to have any effect at all. > > There are 2 kinds of spaces: > > - inter-word space, that means a normal (strechable) space betweem = > words, > examples: > * word word > * word, word > * WORD. word > * word.\ word > * \mainlanguage[fr] word. word > > - bigger space after period in english text: > * \mainlanguage[en] word. word > > And if you consider the following test-file: > > \starttext > x. x, x x\crlf > x, x. x x\crlf > x,\ x.\ x\ x\crlf > x.\ x,\ x\ x\crlf > X. X, X X\crlf > X, X. X X\crlf > X,\ X.\ X\ X\crlf > X.\ X,\ X\ X > \stoptext > > you see 2 bugs: > > - in MKIV there is no bigger space after "x." > - in MKII the space after "x.\ " is a big one > > Tested with context source date: 2008.07.18 18:38. > > Cheers, Peter > > -- = > http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ > > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an = > entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-co= ntext > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________