Re: [NTG-context] Strange bug with \ in footnotes

Am 05.08.2012 um 09:28 schrieb Otared Kavian :

Hi Aditya,

On 4 août 2012, at 20:59, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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[…] 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