> Not knowing the internals, that's what I tried to say with adding a space > after instead of 1em, i.e. "calculated by the engine". If w an em is added > after, it is not stretchable and shrinkable, right?
Right. But no particular space is added after '?' or '!' in French punctuation mode, TeX sets the standard inter-word glue, as it should. The only intervention by ConTeXt is the addition of the unbreakable space before those marks (and, obviously, after '«'). > Thank you so much for the detailed technical explanation! So, AFAIK, I > believe that the space before should be equivalent to thinspace. You'd need to take this up with Olivier Guéry, who suggested the 1/4 em value in the first place (refer to his interventions from last Fall, e.g., http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/034845.html). He wrote up a small proposal on the wiki page for French Punctuation (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/French_Punctuation). > Thanks, I'll see that. Maybe I could write some detailled specs in the wiki. Yes, please do so by extending the aforementioned page if needed. Arthur ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
