From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/82701 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Bowen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: character spacing for guillemets in English Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 14:42:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1111312561==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370198568 27367 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2013 18:42:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 18:42:48 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jun 02 20:42:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UjDEv-0008Hd-6P for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:42:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FABA101E0; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:42:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id cEoroldaVsYd; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:42:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25139101E4; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:42:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2764F101E4 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:42:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id AluniV3qooHJ for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:42:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B33E101E0 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:42:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-vc0-f175.google.com (mail-vc0-f175.google.com [209.85.220.175]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id r52IgVO1008371 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:42:42 +0200 Original-Received: by mail-vc0-f175.google.com with SMTP id hv10so2174941vcb.34 for ; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:42:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=acccVAyEZJencfLfcXj1fbTvD/FgllHioib/zmN4UcM=; b=Hj2UqrkOcV3eHA/GABPRoeRa/feQUL8PgmTQKqDJ4bCpb/1Z0/JVW5QMZLfqH0Qobb Bhk0IX6ZFGeUhEEIASWLjV9q7+kL22AyAsymhiiYEKj2n4gvUClbVIxmzygbgZDQ/d/3 dDMQsmNQ5ROWSdELUIxWUKIrlQK4VotPSSeTt2hjV6sE6FHpERVKSU9r5o6PZTZMqgBN sz6BUAhX+zO7UJv/A5gJj2PAlmYSMXoJPplrddB+PGd+g/clkOafH2UyBz7hGWEOq9TF BkxlhJuGbBr54foAwpZu/raMQQk1uysd8g2O0kY4KUYJ5Xd61Qr7jqqpvfUjl9Q7FMNV jLSg== X-Received: by 10.58.168.208 with SMTP id zy16mr16039679veb.3.1370198551304; Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:42:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.220.32.76 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Jun 2013 11:42:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=209.85.220.175; country=US; region=CA; city=Mountain View; postalcode=94043; latitude=37.4192; longitude=-122.0574; metrocode=807; areacode=650; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.4192,-122.0574&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0VJHuGwR7 - 659ac5f1e583 - 20130602 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:82701 Archived-At: --===============1111312561== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b677358ec1fc904de3035d7 --047d7b677358ec1fc904de3035d7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 : > > > 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 languag= e > and character spacing are English, so that =93=AB=94 and =93=BB=94 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=3D.1,alternative=3D1] > \setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00BB] [left=3D.1,alternative=3D1] > > \starttext > > text =ABtext=BB text > > \setcharacterspacing[alan] > > text =ABtext=BB text > > \stoptext > > 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-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > --047d7b677358ec1fc904de3035d7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Thanks, Wolfgang. That is a great help: it works perfectly= and saves my day.

All best, Alan


On Sun, Jun 2, 201= 3 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 =93=AB=94 and =93=BB=94 =A0in m= y source file are processed properly?
>
> The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed character= s (typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for th= ese 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=3D.1,alternative=3D1]
\setupcharacterspacing [alan] ["00BB] [left=3D.1,alternative=3D1]

\starttext

text =ABtext=BB text

\setcharacterspacing[alan]

text =ABtext=BB text

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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