On Fri, Jul 18 2008, Alan Bowen wrote: > In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence > is less that that after a period at the end of a sentence. Since the > days of Plain TeX, one achieved the proper spacing after an intra- > sentence period by entering “.\<space>”. My problem is that this no > longer seems to work with recent versions of ConTeXt/MKII: “.\<space>” > does not seem to have any effect at all.
There are 2 kinds of spaces: - inter-word space, that means a normal (strechable) space betweem words, examples: * word word * word, word * WORD. word * word.\ word * \mainlanguage[fr] word. word - bigger space after period in english text: * \mainlanguage[en] word. word And if you consider the following test-file: \starttext x. x, x x\crlf x, x. x x\crlf x,\ x.\ x\ x\crlf x.\ x,\ x\ x\crlf X. X, X X\crlf X, X. X X\crlf X,\ X.\ X\ X\crlf X.\ X,\ X\ X \stoptext you see 2 bugs: - in MKIV there is no bigger space after "x." - in MKII the space after "x.\ " is a big one Tested with context source date: 2008.07.18 18:38. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
