Thanks, Peter. I was wondering about MKIV. (Switching is on my summer “to do” list.)
Best, Alan On Jul 18, 2008, at 15;22,31 , Peter Münster wrote: > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
