On 12/24/05, Ciro Soto wrote:
I didn't understand Hans's instructions. What should I do?
Try this: % this will be added into ConTeXt, so you can leave it out next time %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \startlanguagespecifics[es] \definetextmodediscretionary ? {\prewordbreak\questiondown} \definetextmodediscretionary ! {\prewordbreak\exclamdown} \stoplanguagespecifics %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % an example of the usage: \mainlanguage[es] \starttext |!|Feliz Navidad! \stoptext
On 12/23/05, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
\enableregime[utf] % for utf-8, may be something else as well (depending on editor) \starttext You can write \exclamdown\ or ¡ and \questiondown\ or ¿ \stoptext
that's not comfortable for spanish users, so ... let's hook it into specifics:
I don't know the Spanish habits. I thought that they usually simply hit the proper symbol on their keyboards, but I agree that it's nice to have an "ascii" way to get them.
\startlanguagespecifics[es] \definetextmodediscretionary ? {\prewordbreak\questiondown} \definetextmodediscretionary ! {\prewordbreak\exclamdown} \stoplanguagespecifics
\mainlanguage[es] Hey Mojca, does this look better|?|
|?|I didn't manage to catch the difference in line-breaking algorithm, but aren't those turned quotation marks at the beginning of the sentence? (like \exclamdown\prewordbreak, but as I said - I don't know if it makes any difference at all)
i'll add this to the distribution
So don't forget to mention it in the new manual as well ;) Mojca