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mixing broad and packed spaces
In English, the space after some punctuation (most notably after period) is wider than a usual one; this is a standard behaviour of ConTeXt when typesetting in English. If you want to disable it, in plain TeX or LaTeX you would call <code>\frenchspacing</code>is the command in TeX (that also works in ConTeXt). In ConTeXt, you may say also setup the language instead: <texcode>\setuplanguage[en][spacing=packed]</texcode> instead.
Here is a nice tweak:
By default space after uppercase followed by punctuation is set to <code>traditional</code> which enables a somewhat special hard coded hack in the tex engine where characters with sfcodes 999 nil a following spacecode setting, even when it's triggered by a <code>\ </code>.
== Mixing broad and packed spaces ==
When current language is set to English, the default is to have broad spaces after punctuation marks.
But after an uppercase letter, ConTeXt applies a packed space. Using {{cmd|null}} before the punctuation mark, gives a broad space.
If you need a packed space after a punctuation mark use {{cmd|fsp}}<ref>It stands for ''fixed space punctuation'' before the punctuation mark. It requires ConTeXt LMTX from 2023.02.06 17:58.</ref> or simply use {{cmd| }} (backslash and space) after the punctuation mark.
This sample shows the commands in use:<ref>Excepting {{cmd|fsp}}, since the command is too new for the ConTeXt version in the wiki.</ref>
<context source="yes">
\startTEXpage[offset=1em, foregroundstyle={\tfd}]
PhD. Next sentence
PhD\null. Next sentence
word. Next sentence
word.\ Next sentence
\stopTEXpage
</context>
== Footnotes ==
[[Category:Languages]]
