From: Alan Bowen <bowenalan03@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 14:42:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFMOkGW-qPuJJOKwG6wwMHoq-0XM3yAGsL3_T2PPY-y7BRKscA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A6B8C382-8712-4DE5-A16E-91AA6F6CA69E@gmail.com>
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Thanks, Wolfgang. That is a great help: it works perfectly and saves my day.
All best, Alan
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-02 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-02 12:32 Alan Bowen
2013-06-02 14:16 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-06-02 18:42 ` Alan Bowen [this message]
2013-06-03 8:00 ` Alan BRASLAU
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