Am 05.08.2012 um 09:28 schrieb Otared Kavian <ota...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Aditya,
>
> On 4 août 2012, at 20:59, Aditya Mahajan <aditya.maha...@mcgill.ca> wrote:
>
>> […]
>> Minimal example (There should be a linebreak after \)
>
> Is it not « \\ » that should give a line break? Indeed this gives a line
> break:
> \starttext
> Someone\footnote{Prof.\\ ABC}
> \stoptext
>
> However, you are right to observe that
>
> Someone\footnote{Prof.\
> ABC}
>
> results in an error with the latest beta, while
>
> Someone\footnote{Prof.\ ABC}
>
> does not (and of course there is no line break neither, the « .\ » gives only
> a normal space after the dot).
The “\ ” command gives a control space which is necessary when you use
\nonfrenchspacing
(which is normally set with \setuplanguage[…][spacing=broad]). What \\ produce
depends
on the environment and can be a line break, a space or something different.
Wolfgang
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