> Am 08.03.2015 um 13:55 schrieb Robert Blackstone > <blackstone.rob...@gmail.com>: > > > On 8 Mar 2015, at 13:04 , Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com> > wrote > >>> 12:24 schrieb Robert Blackstone <blackstone.rob...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I would like to use something like a "half-space" or small space in a >>> situation where neither no space, nor a normal space is ideal. >> >> You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace. >> >> BTW. The context version of \medskip is \blank[medium]. > > Thanks Wolfgang. > > “\thinspace” works perfectly for my purpose. > > Oddly enough, \, gives no comma and a normal space, \. gives no period and no > space with mkiv, and a superscript period with mkii. > Could these forms for \thinspace perhaps be obsolete?
I have no problem to use \, as a space command but when you use don’t put a space between the command and the following character. The \. command is used to create a accented character but it shouldn’t be needed when you have a keyword which allows you to write the character. \starttext a\,b\par a\thinspace b \blank[line] \.{c} \stoptext Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________