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From: Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Does a "half-space" or small space exist in ConTeXt?
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 13:55:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B21AC144-3A27-416D-82CB-1AB28177898E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.218.1425816298.2410.ntg-context@ntg.nl>


On 8 Mar 2015, at 13:04 , Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote

>> 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.
> 
> You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace.
> 
> BTW. The context version of \medskip is \blank[medium].

Thanks Wolfgang.

“\thinspace” works perfectly for my purpose.

Oddly enough, \, gives no comma and a normal space, \. gives no period and no space with mkiv, and a superscript period with mkii.
Could these forms for \thinspace perhaps be obsolete? 

Best regards, 
Robert Blackstone


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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.218.1425816298.2410.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2015-03-08 12:55 ` Robert Blackstone [this message]
2015-03-08 13:08   ` Wolfgang Schuster
     [not found] <mailman.222.1425853052.2410.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2015-03-09 20:48 ` Robert Blackstone
     [not found] <mailman.220.1425820367.2410.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2015-03-08 22:19 ` Robert Blackstone
2015-03-08 11:24 Robert Blackstone
2015-03-08 11:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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
2015-03-08 13:13 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2015-03-08 17:37   ` Hans Hagen

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