On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:45:15 +0000 cormullion@mac.com wrote:
This must be a beginner's question, but I can't find the answer to it in the manuals...
Take this ConTeXt source:
-- \def\Acme{% {\ss\sc ACME}}
Welcome from \Acme. \Acme make fine products. --
When this is made into a PDF, it looks like this:
-- Welcome from ACME. ACMEmake fine products. --
- because I didn't have a space in the definition, I don't get a space in the second sentence, but the period didn't interfere with the execution of the first occurrence. But if I put a space in the definition after the 'E', I get this:
-- Welcome from ACME . ACME make fine products. --
- and there's a space after the first 'E', which I don't want, even though there is now a space after the second...
What am I doing wrong?
Hi ???, TeX ignores spaces after commands. This is now problem when your command is before an period, comma ...,but it will it up the next space in a sentence. You can write you sentence in the following ways: Welcome from \Acme. \Acme\ make fine products. Welcome from \Acme. \Acme{} make fine products. Welcome from \Acme. {\Acme} make fine products. There is also a predefined command to define and setup your own abbreviations and syonyms. You can find an example at page 55 in the beginners manual (ma-cb-en.pdf). Wolfgang