Wolfgang, Hans—many thanks to you both!
Part of the problem was that i was using \| instead of \textbar. I now have:
\setupbodyfont[antykwa-poltawskiego]
\def\test
{\ifnum\lastnodetype=\gluenodecode
\|
\else
\textbar
\fi}
\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]
\starttext
left\test middle \test right
\stoptext
which looks good on the page—\quad\textbar\quad puts too much space around
the bar.
Again, thanks!
Alan
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 7/23/2013 1:32 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 23.07.2013 um 13:20 schrieb Alan Bowen <bowenala...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> I am using Antykwa-Poltawskiego to set a French text that includes
>>> ancient Greek.
>>>
>>> In the Greek text, there is a vertical bar (to mark the end of a
>>> column). The custom is to set the spacing about the bar so that
>>> (a) when the bar is inside a word, the bar appears as a normal character
>>> (b) when the bar is between words, the bar has an emspace on either side.
>>>
>>
>> \setupbodyfont[antykwa-**poltawskiego]
>>
>> \def\test
>> {\ifnum\lastnodetype=11
>>
>
> \ifnum\lastnodetype=\**gluenodecode
>
>
> \quad\textbar\quad
>> \else
>> \textbar
>> \fi}
>>
>> \setcharacterspacing[**frenchpunctuation]
>>
>> \starttext
>> left\test middle \test right
>> \stoptext
>>
>> The problem is that Antykwa-Poltawskiego defines the vertical bar with
>>> spaces on either side.
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a example for this?
>>
>> Is there a way to adjust this so that the vertical bar appears as it
>>> should in Greek text—and to do this without clobbering the French
>>> punctuation or getting weird effects when the bar is at the end of a line?
>>> For instance, is there a way to combine rules for character spacing so that
>>> the second overrules the first only when they are in conflict?
>>>
>>
>> Make a example for the problem with french.
>>
>> Wolfgang
>>
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