Re: [NTG-context] inter-word spacing (initials)

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:53 PM, David wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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2008/7/17 David :

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On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:

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Thanks, David. I tried

\starttext A. E. Samuel\crlf A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf A.~E.~Samuel

\stoptext

and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The tilde is not really a good way for me to go. The problem is that I publish a journal in which the bibliography is punctuated mainly by "." Introducing tildes (which make spaces non-breaking) would affect the line-breaking negatively.

Oh - sorry about that.

What happens if you use your preferred way, but add the command \fixedspaces somewhere previously in the document?

I've discovered that this command is now required to get either the \ . or the ~. to have any effect for me. The problem is, I don't know how to turn it off afterwards. :-)

You can't, there is no command to reset it but this should do it.

\def\variablespaces {\letcatcodecommand \ctxcatcodes `\~ \nonbreakablespace}

Thanks Wolfgang. I prefer to have this behaviour available all the time, and I don't understand why anyone would want it turned off - just wanted to apologize for giving incomplete information.

(Any idea why \fixedspaces has been changed from default to optional?)

What do you mean with this, enabling \fixedspaces by default would be a stupid decision because ~ would now insert only a space with the width of "0" and not the width from a normal space. Wolfgang