Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/8/2015 2:13 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: Hi Robert, All the suggestions you have received are good, but ultimately you might want to look at the spaces that Unicode provides, for example 202F. Not sure sure which Unicode space character best suits your needs, but once you

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/8/2015 1:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: On 3/8/2015 12:26 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 11:11 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: this should help:

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/8/2015 7:07 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 18:39 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 3/8/2015 1:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: On 3/8/2015 12:26 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 08.03.2015 um 18:39 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 3/8/2015 1:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: On 3/8/2015 12:26 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 11:11 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Update text variables inside metapost

2015-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/8/2015 12:57 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Sat, 7 Mar 2015, DesdeChaves wrote: Why the metapost not updated the value of text variables that are generated inside luacode environment? In the code below, If I have \startitemize[columns,two] then metapost draw: 1.

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/7/2015 7:22 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 07.03.2015 um 18:30 schrieb Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com: Is that really an mkiv issue? If I understood well tikz has its own way of keeping track of positions independent of context. Normally yes. But there is TikZ’ “remember

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Robert Blackstone
On 8 Mar 2015, at 14:12 , Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote To: mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt? Message-ID: 49ac1148-387a-4934-932a-334cadbb5...@gmail.com Content-Type:

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/8/2015 7:07 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 18:39 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 3/8/2015 1:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: On 3/8/2015 12:26 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 08.03.2015 um 11:11 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: this should help: \unexpanded\def\writeviatex#1#2% {\ifx\normalwrite\relax\else % the \detokenize makes sure we don't expand \noexpanded macros \normalwrite#1{\detokenize{#2}}% \fi} (in future version i might replace

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 08.03.2015 um 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. See the ME: -

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-08 Thread Hans Hagen
On 3/8/2015 12:26 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 11:11 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: this should help: \unexpanded\def\writeviatex#1#2% {\ifx\normalwrite\relax\else % the \detokenize makes sure we don't expand \noexpanded macros

[NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Robert Blackstone
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. See the ME: - \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Verdana] \setupbodyfont[10pt] \starttext On the third beat a 6th between

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with MkIV and TikZ picture remembering

2015-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 08.03.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: On 3/8/2015 12:26 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 11:11 schrieb Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl mailto:pra...@wxs.nl: this should help: \unexpanded\def\writeviatex#1#2%

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 03/08/2015 01:45 PM, Jörg Weger wrote: You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace. But \thinspace aka \, is a non-breaking space, isn’t it? Hi Jörg, I didn’t know, but it seems to be. Is there a way to let it break a line if needed in certain circumstances or

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Jörg Weger
Thank you very much for that list. Greetings Jörg On 08.03.2015 13:58, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 08.03.2015 um 13:45 schrieb Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com: You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace. But \thinspace aka \, is a non-breaking space, isn’t

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Hi Robert, All the suggestions you have received are good, but ultimately you might want to look at the spaces that Unicode provides, for example 202F. Not sure sure which Unicode space character best suits your needs, but once you have determined that, you can map it to one of the

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Jörg Weger
You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace. But \thinspace aka \, is a non-breaking space, isn’t it? Is there a way to let it break a line if needed in certain circumstances or is there something else like a “non-non-breaking thinspace”? Greetings Jörg On

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 08.03.2015 um 13:45 schrieb Jörg Weger joerg73@googlemail.com: You can use \thinspace or \, which is the short form of \thinspace. But \thinspace aka \, is a non-breaking space, isn’t it? Is there a way to let it break a line if needed in certain circumstances or is there

Re: [NTG-context] Does a half-space or small space exist in ConTeXt?

2015-03-08 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
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