That is my understanding too, Wolfgang. But I am just not seeing it either in the example or in my documents. So what’s up? As I said in a more recent posting, this is affecting my journal adversely. Alan On Jul 17, 2008, at 07;56,25 , Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Alan Bowen wrote:

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I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii.

One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by typing ".\<space>", but this no longer seems to work. Compare the inter-word spacing in

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

\stoptext

If the is a difference here, I am having trouble seeing it; and on a typeset page, the gaps after the initials just seem too big.

In general, I find that the spacing after certain characters ---e.g., ")"---has been increased of late. Is this in fact the case? Or should I go back to my old glasses?

AFAIK the '\ ' after the dot should prevent to stretch the space.

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