Re: [NTG-context] character spacing for guillemets in English
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 16:16:04 +0200 Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 02.06.2013 um 14:32 schrieb Alan Bowen bowenala...@gmail.com: Is there a global way to insert a very thin (ca 1pt) unbreakable space before a right guillemet and after a left guillemet when the main language and character spacing are English, so that “«” and “»” in my source file are processed properly? The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed characters (typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for these two characters but have not been able to figure out how to do this from the ConTeXt source files. \definecharacterspacing [alan] \setupcharacterspacing [alan] [00AB] [right=.1,alternative=1] \setupcharacterspacing [alan] [00BB] [left=.1,alternative=1] \starttext text «text» text \setcharacterspacing[alan] text «text» text \stoptext Wolfgang Or {\fr\quotation{text}}... ___ 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 ___
[NTG-context] character spacing for guillemets in English
Is there a global way to insert a very thin (ca 1pt) unbreakable space before a right guillemet and after a left guillemet when the main language and character spacing are English, so that “«” and “»” in my source file are processed properly? The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed characters (typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for these two characters but have not been able to figure out how to do this from the ConTeXt source files. Alan ___ 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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] character spacing for guillemets in English
Am 02.06.2013 um 14:32 schrieb Alan Bowen bowenala...@gmail.com: Is there a global way to insert a very thin (ca 1pt) unbreakable space before a right guillemet and after a left guillemet when the main language and character spacing are English, so that “«” and “»” in my source file are processed properly? The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed characters (typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for these two characters but have not been able to figure out how to do this from the ConTeXt source files. \definecharacterspacing [alan] \setupcharacterspacing [alan] [00AB] [right=.1,alternative=1] \setupcharacterspacing [alan] [00BB] [left=.1,alternative=1] \starttext text «text» text \setcharacterspacing[alan] text «text» text \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 ___
Re: [NTG-context] character spacing for guillemets in English
Thanks, Wolfgang. That is a great help: it works perfectly and saves my day. All best, Alan On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com wrote: Am 02.06.2013 um 14:32 schrieb Alan Bowen bowenala...@gmail.com: Is there a global way to insert a very thin (ca 1pt) unbreakable space before a right guillemet and after a left guillemet when the main language and character spacing are English, so that “«” and “»” in my source file are processed properly? The font that I am using puts them too close to the enclosed characters (typically, Greek). Basically, I need to borrow the French spacing for these two characters but have not been able to figure out how to do this from the ConTeXt source files. \definecharacterspacing [alan] \setupcharacterspacing [alan] [00AB] [right=.1,alternative=1] \setupcharacterspacing [alan] [00BB] [left=.1,alternative=1] \starttext text «text» text \setcharacterspacing[alan] text «text» text \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 ___ ___ 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 ___