Mikael, Wolfgang: This is in reference to the prior Re: redefine space to be the same as \␣ similar to knuthian approach

Maybe your system is broken?

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2. The example below results in a correct output for \TEX.

Not in my end with any font other than latin modern

Here

\setupbodyfont[stixtwo]

\setuplayout[width=16cm] \showmakeup

\starttext

Thus, I came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large||scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. \setupbodyfont[12.895pt]

{\ss The separation of any of these four components would have hurt \TeX\ significantly. If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.\par}

After long hours of meditation I was going to ask you, Mikael, what exactly did you mean by «maybe your system is broken» but I chose to have chatgpt to provide me all the answers instead; just kidding :) But It seems as if any other font without the correct width units causes kerning to be thrown off most noticeably on control sequences such as \TeX\ and presumably, this, in turn, rightly so, also causes those extra spaces all over When I read the log it said that the backend > fonts > width units are being forced to be 1000, but in reality this never happened. If it had happened, I wouldnt' have had this issue with sizes say at 10pt and 11pt The permissions for these font files are 644 or read permissions only and I wrongly assumed this would be taken care of by the backend, but by the looks of it, it didn't. Anyhow. Thank you for your time Mikael, Wolfgang. you too Hans. -- Seems a computer engineer, a systems analyst, and a programmer were driving down a mountain when the brakes gave out. They screamed down the mountain, gaining speed, but finally managed to grind to a halt, more by luck than anything else, just inches from a thousand foot drop to jagged rocks. They all got out of the car: The computer engineer said, "I think I can fix it." The systems analyst said, "No, no, I think we should take it into town and have a specialist look at it." The programmer said, "OK, but first I think we should get back in and see if it does it again."