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 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 problem is that this no
> longer seems to work with recent versions of ConTeXt/MKII: “.\<space>”
> does not seem to have any effect at all.
>
are you sure of that?
a citation from "The TeXbook", chapter 12: Glue
"Another way to get TeX to put out a normal space is to type '\ '
(control space); e.g., 'Mr.\ Drofnats' would be almost the same as
'Mr.~Drofnats', exept that a line might end after the 'Mr.'. "
also: you don't need a control space here
from the exercise 12.5:
"TeX doesn't consider a period or question mark or exclamation point to
be the end of a sentence if the preceding character is an uppercase
letter, since TeX assumes that such uppercase letters are most likely
somebody's initials'. "
what you want is just a smaller skip. so how about a *local* use of
something like
\def\ {\thinspace}%
donno if this is possible (side effects) in your environment. maybe one
of the gurus can give an answer. anyhow, interesting stuff :)
best wishes, peter
> So, how are we now to get the proper spacing after an intra-sentence
> period? Are there some language/spacing commands that need to be
> invoked in the prelims now?
>
> Sample text:
> \starttext
>
> A. E. Samuels and other scholars. The community of time{-}keepers.
>
> A.\ E.\ Samuels and other scholars. The community of time{-}keepers.
>
> \stoptext
>
> Alan
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