Many thanks, Charles. This does work and I will use it if push comes  
to shove, as we say.

Alan
On Aug 2, 2008, at 22;46,00 , Charles P. Schaum wrote:

> Alan,
>
> If you wand quick and dirty because you are against a hard deadline,  
> use
> inline math mode and insert negative space $\!$ AFTER the x. and
> IMMEDIATELY BEFORE the next bit. You could also define a macro  
> \negspace
> to do it as well:
>
> \def\negspace{$\!$}
>
> so that
>
> x, x. \negspace x x
>
> will yield the spacing that
>
> x, x.\ x x
>
> ought to. It's an UGLY hack, but you'd be surprised at how ugly I  
> hacked
> my own thesis in LaTeX to get it converted to Word and get it in on
> time. The very memory is traumatic.
>
> Charles
>
> On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 18:57 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
>> I apologize to all, but circumstances oblige me to pick up a very
>> pedestrian thread for the third time.
>>
>> As Peter Münster noted: in 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
>>
>> The problem remains in ConTeXt  ver: 2008.07.31 16:30 for MKII (which
>> I am using). I am do not know if here have been any changes in MKIV.
>>
>> Is there a fix for this in the works?  I am about to publish a series
>> of pages which will look vastly better if this is fixed.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
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