Am 2015-12-07 um 21:39 schrieb Aditya Mahajan :

When typesetting bibliography manually, I typically use \frenchspacing.

You may, but that is increasing spacing (at least around punctuation). But my publisher would like tighter-than-normal spacing. Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

Am 2015-12-08 um 02:15 schrieb Rik Kabel :

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When typesetting bibliography manually, I typically use \frenchspacing. You may, but that is increasing spacing (at least around punctuation). But my publisher would like tighter-than-normal spacing. Is a condensed font that complements your text face available? That, and reducing the font size should be the first things to look at. If neither will work for you, there is a sledge-hammer you can wield: \kerncharacters. Depending on the font and your sensibilities, you might get away with \kerncharacters[-0.07], but even at -0.03 some look bad. You will lose ligatures.

Thank you for the suggestion, but I am not looking for typographical solutions, being a typographer myself. I asked explicitely for TeXnical advice to achieve tighter spacing - maybe I should have made clear that I don’t mean character kerning but only the handling of "space" glyphs. Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

Am 2015-12-08 um 15:01 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster :

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\unprotect \definedescription[BibItem][ headcommand=\gobbleoneargument, align=right, before={\bgroup\spac_spacecodes_set_fixed{50}}, % does this take a value or a unicode point? after={\egroup}, %\spac_spacecodes_set_stretch}, ] \protect

I’d also like to have footnotes in tighter spacing.

You have to change the value of the \spaceskip register when you want to change with width of a space.

\startsetups[footnote:space] \spaceskip .7\interwordspace plus .5\interwordstretch minus \interwordshrink \stopsetups

\setupnote[footnote][setups=footnote:space]

Thank you for the suggestion, but I can’t see any change, even if I use extreme values for \spaceskip (like 0.1 or 10.0), neither in footnotes nor in my description (is the setups key even supposed to work in \definedescription?). Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

Am 2015-12-08 um 17:48 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster :

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Henning Hraban Ramm 8. Dezember 2015 um 12:11

Thank you for the suggestion, but I can’t see any change, even if I use extreme values for \spaceskip (like 0.1 or 10.0), neither in footnotes The footnote on the second page is a line shorter.

Ok.

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nor in my description (is the setups key even supposed to work in \definedescription?). No, there is no setups key for description and you have to misuse the style key.

\define\CompressSpace {\spaceskip .7\interwordspace plus .5\interwordstretch minus \interwordshrink}

\definedescription[compressedspace]

Yes, this works for me. But I like Pablo’s version better. Greetlings, Hraban Grüßlinge, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

On 12/08/2015 12:11 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

[...] Thank you for the suggestion, but I can’t see any change, even if I use extreme values for \spaceskip (like 0.1 or 10.0), neither in footnotes nor in my description (is the setups key even supposed to work in \definedescription?).

Hi Hraban, I don’t know whether this is right, but this works for me: \startsetups[footnote:space] \spaceskip .7\interwordspace plus .5\interwordstretch minus \interwordshrink \stopsetups \definedescription[definition][before=\directsetup{footnote:space}] \definedescription[definitiona] \starttext \definition{Hermann Zapf} \input zapf \definitiona{Hermann Zapf} \input zapf \stoptext Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

Henning Hraban Ramm mailto:texml@fiee.net 8. Dezember 2015 um 16:22

Thank you, this is really nice. Didn’t know \directsetup (i.e. I can’t handle these setups at all).

I also tried to get rid of the bigger space after stops:

\installlanguage[packed][en] \setuplanguage[packed][spacing=packed] You don’t have add a new language because \startsetups[tightspace] \spaceskip 0.7\interwordspace plus .5\interwordstretch minus \interwordshrink \stopsetups

\definedescription[BibItem][ before={\directsetup{tightspace}\bgroup\language[packed]}, after={\egroup}, ] you can use here (the grouping isn’t necessary)

before={\directsetup{tightspace}\setupspacing[packed]}, Wolfgang