On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> since my bibliographic setup works well, thanks again, I’d like to tighten it a bit, i.e. reduce spacing under defined circumstances.
>
> In the docs and sources I found only how to affect spacing of languages, and only "packed" or "broad".
>
> In lang-spa.mkiv I found \definehspace, and in spac-hor.mkiv I found \spac_spacecodes_set_fixed{}, but I don’t understand if they can do what I want, and how.
>
> This doesn’t help:
>
> \unprotect
> \definedescription[BibItem][
> 	headcommand=\gobbleoneargument,
> 	align=right,
> 	before={\bgroup\spac_spacecodes_set_fixed{50}}, % does this take a value or a unicode point?
> 	after={\egroup}, %\spac_spacecodes_set_stretch},
> ]
> \protect
>
> I’d also like to have footnotes in tighter spacing.
>
> Any ideas?

When typesetting bibliography manually, I typically use \frenchspacing.

Aditya