From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: Re: Sentence breaks for "English-style" (TeX default in English language) spacing regime
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2023 13:44:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd31e253-4b24-cfef-478b-d5a5df0e8199@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ef2662a-da0f-ed2d-7a90-48045b6b33b9@gmx.es>
On 2/4/2023 10:10 AM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> On 2/3/23 19:11, Henry House via ntg-context wrote:
>> List: What method should one use to code whitespace after a period as
>> being sentence-ending, not midsentence, when not employing French
>> spacing?
>
> Hi Henry,
>
> not sure I’m getting your point, since this is also a question of
> perspective.
>
> What may be named “French spacing” in English may be considered as
> “English spacing” in any other European language.
>
> But this is pure TeX
> (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/teximpatient.git/plain/teximpatient/book.pdf#search=null):
>
> \starttext
> \startTEXpage[offset=1em]
> PhD. Next sentence
>
> PhD\null. Next sentence
> \stopTEXpage
> \stoptext
>
> I think this may be what you want.
>
>> References:
>>
>> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/French_spacing Not helpful alas.
>
> Would you be so kind to update the wiki?
>
> I hope it helps,
Assuming that you document it I'll add
test\fsp. test. test
where fsp == fixed space functuation
Hans
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-03 18:11 Henry House via ntg-context
2023-02-04 9:10 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2023-02-05 12:44 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2023-02-14 17:57 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
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