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 for me to go. The problem is that I
>> publish a journal in which the bibliography is punctuated mainly by
>> "." Introducing tildes (which make spaces non-breaking) would affect
>> the line-breaking negatively.
>
> Oh - sorry about that.
>
> What happens if you use your preferred way, but add the command
> \fixedspaces somewhere previously in the document?
>
> I've discovered that this command is now required to get either the \ .
> or the ~. to have any effect for me. The problem is, I don't know how
> to turn it off afterwards. :-)
You can't, there is no command to reset it but this should do it.
\def\variablespaces
{\letcatcodecommand \ctxcatcodes `\~ \nonbreakablespace}
Wolfgang
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