Thanks, Hans. I simplified the test file.
\mainlanguage[en]
\unexpanded\def\ {\mathortext\normalspaceprimitive\space}
\starttext
A. E. Samuels.
A.\ E.\ Samuels.
\stoptext
Do you see the required difference at your end? On my screen, the
two lines look exactly the same (regardless of the
Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, Hans. I simplified the test file.
\mainlanguage[en]
\unexpanded\def\ {\mathortext\normalspaceprimitive\space}
\starttext
A. E. Samuels.
A.\ E.\ Samuels.
\stoptext
Do you see the required difference at your end? On my screen, the
two lines look
That’s got it, Hans! I have replaced all my old “.\ ” with “.|~|”. My
pages look much better now. Many thanks indeed.
All best, Alan
On Aug 4, 2008, at 10;23,22 , Hans Hagen wrote:
Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, Hans. I simplified the test file.
\mainlanguage[en]
\unexpanded\def\
Alan Bowen wrote:
I apologize to all, but circumstances oblige me to pick up a very
pedestrian thread for the third time.
As Peter Münster noted: in 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
Many thanks, Charles. This does work and I will use it if push comes
to shove, as we say.
Alan
On Aug 2, 2008, at 22;46,00 , Charles P. Schaum wrote:
Alan,
If you wand quick and dirty because you are against a hard deadline,
use
inline math mode and insert negative space $\!$ AFTER the
Thanks, Hans. In my test file I now have
\mainlanguage[en]
\unexpanded\def\ {\mathortext\normalspaceprimitive\space}
\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
Unfortunately, I do not see
Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, Hans. In my test file I now have
\mainlanguage[en]
\unexpanded\def\ {\mathortext\normalspaceprimitive\space}
\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
Alan,
If you wand quick and dirty because you are against a hard deadline, use
inline math mode and insert negative space $\!$ AFTER the x. and
IMMEDIATELY BEFORE the next bit. You could also define a macro \negspace
to do it as well:
\def\negspace{$\!$}
so that
x, x. \negspace x x
will yield
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
2008/7/17 David [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, David. I tried
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
Alan Bowen schrieb:
My original query has generated some interesting sidelines but no
solution, at least none that I can see. So, with all due apologies, I
shall presume on your patience by restating my query.
In (English) typography the spacing after a period within a sentence
is
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
Thanks, Peter. You are right about (Plain) TeX--I just got into the
habit of inserting them.
Defining my own macro to reproduce the control space is a possibility,
and I will do that IF the current behavior of “.\ ’ and the tilde in
MKII is not remedied. (I have not switched to MKIV yet,
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
Thanks, David. I tried
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel
\stoptext
and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The
tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem is that I
publish a journal in which the bibliography is punctuated
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Alan Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii.
One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by
typing .\space, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the
inter-word spacing in
\starttext
A. E.
That is my understanding too, Wolfgang. But I am just not seeing it
either in the example or in my documents.
So what’s up? As I said in a more recent posting, this is affecting my
journal adversely.
Alan
On Jul 17, 2008, at 07;56,25 , Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, David. I tried
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel
\stoptext
and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The
tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem is
2008/7/17 David [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, David. I tried
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel
\stoptext
and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The
tilde is not really a good way
Thanks, David.
I had not realized that there was a command \fixedspaces. Is it
documented somewhere?
The sample file
\starttext
\fixedspaces
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel
\stoptext
still produces the same spacing for “A. E. Samuel” and “A.\ E.\
Samuel”. The spacing
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
2008/7/17 David [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, David. I tried
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel
\stoptext
and can see no difference (ConTeXt
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:13:15 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, David.
I had not realized that there was a command \fixedspaces. Is it
documented somewhere?
It's in cont-eni on page 72. However, I have not needed the command
until recently - I have used the tilde to create narrower spaces
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:30:19 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii.
One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by
typing “.\space”, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the
inter-word spacing in
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
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