On 25 June 2017 at 12:16, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 6/24/2017 4:48 PM, Thomas Widmann wrote: >> >> Lots of published dictionaries are full of orphans and widows because >> they're so hard to avoid without a lot of manual intervention, which >> is why I'm keen to explore any novel ways to avoid them. >> >> However, all ways I can think of requires typesetting the entries in >> the last column multiple times, i.e.: >> >> repeat >> adjust parameters (column width, looseness, ...) >> typeset column >> until the column doesn't generate orphan/widow >> >> Is this possible with ConTeXt/LuaTeX? > > maybe be more explicit with very large penalties helps > > \startdocument > > \showmakeup[penalty] > > [...] > > \stopdocument
Thanks, Hans, that's a very instructive bit of code, and I'm sure it will be useful from time to time. However, it doesn't really answer my question: Is there a way in ConTeXt/LuaTeX to typeset a column repeatedly until it fulfils certain criteria (such as not generating an orphan or a widow)? Perhaps it would be easier if I didn't think of it as a column, but simply as a box? The only problem I can see with that is that it makes it awkward to handle the fact that long entries will often need to run into the next column. Thomas -- Thomas Widmann Director Complexli Limited +44 789 444 3009 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
