At 07:03 AM 1/18/2002 +0000, Marco Kuhlmann wrote: ><file://f:\mail\eudora\attach\Re Reimplementing xspace.ems ><0880.0002>>501f5.jpg<file://f:\mail\eudora\attach\Re Reimplementing >xspace.ems <0880.0002>> Re Reimplementing xspace.ems
^^^^ those pgp messages cannot be quoted, only painfully copied ^^^^ >> so the problem is rather on how to integrate this with the rest of >> ConTeXt: there are some features of ConTeXt (e.g. logos, >> abbreviations) for which obeying spaces should be an option. > >I think this definitely needs consideration. It belongs to a >broader topic "programmable typography", to which I would add programmable typo depends on extensive tagging; the outcome of minimal tagging as in the following items depends much on the availability of trigger points; complications arrise when content is hidden in capsules (macros, boxxes) since this breaks lookahead and lookback. As a result, having such features available will definitely lead to suboptimal output unless each instance is visually tested. >issues like > > - dotted abbreviations (normally, you want a dot after them, > but not at the end of a sentence), can be a feature, but never be default; a user should turn it on thereby knowing that checking is needed; an important question to answer is: how does this relate to languages. > - capitals (it would be great if ConTeXt could automatically > detect sequences of capitals and optionally typeset them a > little smaller than the rest of the text), can only be done with active chars and fuzzy logic; can of worms; however, a macro based solution is already available in \Words; tricky point: there is no real watertight grabbing / mapping for arbitrary chars other than bytecoded ones. > - hanging punctuation (does not work for all punctuation yet, > and does not? work for left margins), this is already there in protruding characters in pdftex, highy configurable for *all* characters, left and right >and some others. [supp-box and syst-* and supp-fun already provide some trickery] Hans
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