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 >>>> 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?)
What do you mean with this, enabling \fixedspaces by default would be a stupid decision because ~ would now insert only a space with the width of "0" and not the width from a normal space. 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________