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: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 21:48:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E3BCBAC5-629C-4E17-89EB-745F5F755D9A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.222.1425853052.2410.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
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On 8 Mar 2015, at 23:17 , Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote
>
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 05:24:51 -0600, Robert Blackstone
<blackstone.robert@gmail.com> wrote
>> I would like to use something like a "half-space" or small space in
> All the suggestions you have received are good, but ultimately you might
> want to look at the spaces that Unicode provides, for example 202F. Not
> sure sure which Unicode space character best suits your needs, but once
> you have determined that, you can map it to one of the commands suggested
> by others, or even define it to the exact width you want. For example, I
> use imacron (U+012B) so much that it clashes with other characters. So I
> map it to an alternate version that has a thinner macron:
>
> \defineactivecharacter ī {\fontchar{imacron.alt}}
>
> So what you want is a unicode space character that you can enter in your
> editor, then define it in ConTeXt to exactly what you want.
and Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote
> fyi: the list that Wolfgang shows with verbose space names ... these are
> in fact unicode characters.
Thanks to both of you for pointing this out to me.
Up till now I have never used unicode characters the way Idris proposes and I’m not sure that I already have the skills to make it work.
For the moment I’m quite happy with the many possibilities that were given by Wolfgang and Hans.
Best regards,
Robert
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2015-03-08 12:55 ` Robert Blackstone
2015-03-08 13:08 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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
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