Hello Hans, | > Hello ConTeXt folks, | > I'm quite new to ConTeXt. I like it. | > It's way more systematic than LaTeX. | > Here's my first question. When omitting the last | > part of a sentence, I want four periods: | > This is a long sentence which\ldots. | | which\unknown Thanks for the answer! It's close, but not quite. First, I noticed that \unknown produces three dots, not four. So, I tried "\unknown." (See the attached.) In this case, There is a thin space between the word and the first dot, so that the output looks like which . . . . Convention says that the fist dot should look like a sentence-ending period: which. . . . Second, with "\unknown.", the last space is slightly, just slightly, narrower than the preceding two. I guess "\unknown" is designed to be an inter-sentence ellipsis: This long sentence\unknown is complicated. For this purpose, it's perfect. It generates appropriate spaces before and after the three dots. Regards, Ryo ======================================== \starttext Hello\ldots. World.\ldots Hello\unknown. World.\unknown Hello\unknown World. \stoptext

Wolfgang, | \unexpanded\def\fourdots{{\def\periodswidth{.3em}\periods[4]}} | | \starttext | Hello\fourdots\ World\fourdots | | Hello\fourdots\ World. | \stoptext Thanks for the macro! It's almost perfect. . . . I thought I was imagining things, but the distance between the last letter of the word and the first dot actually seems to be dependent on the parameter "\periodswidth{.3em}". See the attached example. I changed it to "\periodswidth{.4em}" and then the distance is larger with \fourdots than with \ldots . The distance \ldots produces is the same as a raw period produces. If possible, I'd like the distance to be always the same as the one a raw period produces. By the way, I'm wondering where one should store personal macro files. With LaTeX (texlive-latex), ~/texmf/tex/latex/ seems to be the default place. Is ~/texmf/tex/context/ a recommended place? Ryo ------------- % % Use a large font to make the difference clearer. % \unexpanded\def\fourdots{{\def\periodswidth{.4em}\periods[4]}} \starttext Hello. World. Hello\ldots. World. Hello\fourdots\ World. Hello. World. \stoptext

\def\fourdots {\ldotp\ldotp\ldotp\ldotp} Wolfgang Am 11.05.2009 um 23:14 schrieb Ryo Furue:

Wolfgang,

| \unexpanded\def\fourdots{{\def\periodswidth{.3em}\periods[4]}} | | \starttext | Hello\fourdots\ World\fourdots | | Hello\fourdots\ World. | \stoptext

Thanks for the macro! It's almost perfect. . . . I thought I was imagining things, but the distance between the last letter of the word and the first dot actually seems to be dependent on the parameter "\periodswidth{.3em}". See the attached example.

I changed it to "\periodswidth{.4em}" and then the distance is larger with \fourdots than with \ldots . The distance \ldots produces is the same as a raw period produces. If possible, I'd like the distance to be always the same as the one a raw period produces.

By the way, I'm wondering where one should store personal macro files. With LaTeX (texlive-latex), ~/texmf/tex/latex/ seems to be the default place. Is ~/texmf/tex/context/ a recommended place?

Ryo ------------- % % Use a large font to make the difference clearer. % \unexpanded\def\fourdots{{\def\periodswidth{.4em}\periods[4]}} \starttext Hello. World.

Hello\ldots. World.

Hello\fourdots\ World.

Hello. World. \stoptext ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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