From: Alan Bowen <acbowen@princeton.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: inter-word spacing (initials)
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:13:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D642400E-B3AC-4E79-AD31-BEE699C6DFA2@princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717064618813277.b39e92e5@gmail.com>
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Thanks, David.
I had not realized that there was a command \fixedspaces. Is it
documented somewhere?
The sample file
\starttext
\fixedspaces
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel
\stoptext
still produces the same spacing for “A. E. Samuel” and “A.\ E.\
Samuel”. The spacing in “A.~E.~Samuel” is visibly larger.
We seem to have lost a very fundamental TeX feature here—and gained
others of questionable value such as the increased spacing after “)”.
Is there a way for a user to (re)define or customize such spacing
issues?
Alan
On Jul 17, 2008, at 09;46,18 , David wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
>
>> Thanks, David. I tried
>>
>> \starttext
>> A. E. Samuel\crlf
>> A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
>> A.~E.~Samuel
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The
>> tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem is that I
>> publish a journal in which the bibliography is punctuated mainly by
>> “.” Introducing tildes (which make spaces non-breaking) would affect
>> the line-breaking negatively.
>
> Oh - sorry about that.
>
> What happens if you use your preferred way, but add the command
> \fixedspaces somewhere previously in the document?
>
> I've discovered that this command is now required to get either the
> \ .
> or the ~. to have any effect for me. The problem is, I don't know how
> to turn it off afterwards. :-)
>
> David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-17 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 21:30 Alan Bowen
2008-07-17 2:27 ` David
2008-07-17 11:46 ` Alan Bowen
2008-07-17 13:46 ` David
2008-07-17 14:01 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-17 14:53 ` David
2008-07-18 15:26 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-17 15:13 ` Alan Bowen [this message]
2008-07-18 4:33 ` David
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2008-08-02 22:57 Alan Bowen
2008-08-03 2:46 ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-08-03 16:19 ` Alan Bowen
2008-08-03 16:05 ` Hans Hagen
2008-08-03 16:25 ` Alan Bowen
2008-08-03 20:45 ` Hans Hagen
2008-08-04 13:28 ` Alan Bowen
2008-08-04 14:23 ` Hans Hagen
2008-08-04 17:23 ` Alan Bowen
2008-07-18 17:35 Alan Bowen
2008-07-18 18:40 ` Peter Rolf
2008-07-18 20:33 ` Alan Bowen
2008-07-18 19:22 ` Peter Münster
2008-07-18 20:38 ` Alan Bowen
2008-07-15 21:26 Alan Bowen
2008-07-17 11:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-17 12:19 ` Alan Bowen
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