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 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}
Thanks Wolfgang. I prefer to have this behaviour available all the time, and I don't understand why anyone would want it turned off - just wanted to apologize for giving incomplete information. (Any idea why \fixedspaces has been changed from default to optional?) Thanks David ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________