From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42537 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Bowen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: inter-word spacing (initials) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:19:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <9DEDAF9D-97EF-4230-AB76-61D8E9B5A332@princeton.edu> <115224fb0807170456p7e4961capf131adfcbba28303@mail.gmail.com> 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 1216297417 5162 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2008 12:23:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:23:37 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 17 14:24:22 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 1KJSWs-0003vb-Ds for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:24:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13EBC1FC71; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:23:17 +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 27035-01-2; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:22:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80051FC74; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:22:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587161FC74 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:22:22 +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 27035-01 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:21:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from gold.muskoka.com (gold.muskoka.com [209.91.173.234]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA0F1FC71 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:19:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from huntsville-dialup-209-91-149-247.vianet.ca (huntsville-dialup-209-91-149-247.vianet.ca [209.91.149.247]) by gold.muskoka.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADF4C39F6 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:19:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <115224fb0807170456p7e4961capf131adfcbba28303@mail.gmail.com> 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:42537 Archived-At: That is my understanding too, Wolfgang. But I am just not seeing it = either in the example or in my documents. So what=92s up? As I said in a more recent posting, this is affecting my = journal adversely. Alan On Jul 17, 2008, at 07;56,25 , Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Alan Bowen = > wrote: >> I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii. >> >> One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by >> typing ".\", but this no longer seems to work. Compare the >> inter-word spacing in >> >> \starttext >> A. E. Samuel\crlf >> A.\ E.\ Samuel >> >> \stoptext >> >> If the is a difference here, I am having trouble seeing it; and on a >> typeset page, the gaps after the initials just seem too big. >> >> In general, I find that the spacing after certain characters ---e.g., >> ")"---has been increased of late. Is this in fact the case? Or should >> I go back to my old glasses? > > AFAIK the '\ ' after the dot should prevent to stretch the space. > > Wolfgang > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________= ________