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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>. | 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>. | ||
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Revision as of 14:22, 8 June 2020
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 \frenchspacing. In ConTeXt, you may say
\setuplanguage[en][spacing=packed]
instead.
Here is a nice tweak:
\enabledirectives[characters.spaceafteruppercase=normal] \vbox{\hsize 5em x. X\par x.\ X\par X. X\par X.\ X\par}
By default space after uppercase followed by punctuation is set to traditional 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 \ .
