On 11/5/2014 21:50 PM, Christoph Reller wrote:

> On 11/5/2014 10:28 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> > On 11/5/2014 8:09 AM, Christoph Reller wrote:
> > > Thank you very much Hans!
> > >
> > > Maybe you could tell me why the following still produces a space in
> > > front of the full stop:
> > >
> > > \definetype[ctype][compact=absolute]
> > > \starttext
> > > \bTABLE
> > >    \bTR \bTD \ctype{\test.txt} \eTD \eTR
> > > \eTABLE
> > > \stoptext
> >
> > because the absolute cleaner only deals with \foo { and \foo [
> >
> > > If this issue is resolved I will be glad to wikify.
> >
> > i'll add the . to the filter criteria
> 
> Thank you for the explanation.  I am not sure if it is a wise idea to add
> only "." (the full stop).  I tried the following characters, and they all
> are preceded by a space:
> 
>   . - _ # % , ; @ !
> 
> Basically, what I want is to write a file system path name such as
> C:\Path_to-my\file.ext.  The above characters are all valid file system
> characters.  Is there a better solution?  Or are you willing to add all the
> above (maybe except for # and %) to the absolute cleaner?

For anybody interested in this: I have decided to resort to \hyphenatedurl{...}. This means that I have to escape \ as \\, # as \# and % as \letterpercent. Let me know if you have a better solution.

Christoph