Yue Wang wrote:

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Ryo Furue wrote:

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Hi ConTeXt users,

I'm wondering what's the ConTeXt version of LaTeX's "\@." (which indicates an end-of-sentence period). I can define

\def\@{\spacefactor1000}

and use it, but if there is an official version I'd like to know.

I think in Professional typesetting, the same amount of space should be left for all full stop/comma/whaever. You'd better change TeX's default behavior.

huh? each language can has its own rules ... spacing after period or comma is one, but also think of quotes in quotations etc; and, the french have spacing before and after : ; . , (it has always been a selling point for tex to be able to deal with it) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:

each language can has its own rules ... spacing after period or comma is one, but also think of quotes in quotations etc; and, the french have spacing before and after : ; . , (it has always been a selling point for tex to be able to deal with it)

Hello Hans, Could you please comment on this message: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080718.192231.d8036759.en.html It seems, that the contents of this message is still up-to-date. Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

| > I'm wondering what's the ConTeXt version | > of LaTeX's "\@." (which indicates an end-of-sentence | > period). I can define | > | > \def\@{\spacefactor1000} | > | > and use it, but if there is an official version | > I'd like to know. | | ... USA.\ ... Thanks, but that doesn't change the spacing, in my environment at least. (I use texlive-context on the testing distribution of Debian.) I think the command "\ " inserts an inter-word spacing, not an inter-sentence spacing. You can compare whether USA.\ This is another sentence gives the same result as USA\spacefactor1000. This is another sentence I know there is a typographic style where the inter-word and inter-sentence spacings are the same. But, by default, ConTeXt uses a larger inter-sentence spacing than the inter-word spacing. In such a case, there has to be a means to indicate an inter-sentence spacing when a sentence ends with a capital letter and a period. Regards, Ryo

On Thu, 14 May 2009, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

@Hans: There is something wrong with \nonfrenchspacing (or spacefactor) in mkiv.

Indeed. See also: http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=117 Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/