[NTG-context] Re: missing space with French quotation

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

Peter Münster schrieb am 07.06.2024 um 13:31:
> On Thu, May 30 2024, Peter Münster wrote:
> 
>> \mainlanguage[fr]
>> \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]
>> \starttext
>> bla \quotation{OK} bla\\
>> bla «OK» bla
>> \startquotation
>>    Not Ok: a space is missing
>> \stopquotation
>> \stoptext
> 
> It seems, that this workaround solves the problem:
> \setupquotation[before={\setcharacterspacing[reset]}]


The quotation environment doesn't rely on the characterspacing mechanism 
to add the spaces before and the after the quotes but uses language 
dependent skips.

The example below shows how it works and where it fails when you use 
characterspacing. Resetting spacing (and probably other settings like 
charcterkerning etc.) when the quotes are added as you noticed fixes the 
problem.

%%%% begin example
\starttext

\dontleavehmode
\hbox{«\hspace[fr][quotation]}%
xxx%
\hbox{\hspace[fr][quotation]»}

\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]

\dontleavehmode
\hbox{«\hspace[fr][quotation]}%
xxx%
\hbox{\hspace[fr][quotation]»}

\dontleavehmode
\hbox{\expand\everyresettypesetting\relax «\hspace[fr][quotation]}%
xxx%
\hbox{\expand\everyresettypesetting\relax \hspace[fr][quotation]»}

\stoptext
%%%% end example

> What do you think about it? Is this the right way to do it?

I would use the symstyle key as hook to disable charcterspacing for the 
quotes in the environment.

%%%% begin example
\mainlanguage[fr]

\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]

\setupquotation[symstyle=\resetcharacterspacing]

\starttext

«xxx»

\startquotation xxx\stopquotation

\stoptext
%%%% end example

Wolfgang
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