Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 28 June 2017 at 13:49, Thomas Widmann wrote: > On 28 June 2017 at 12:57, Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 6/28/2017 1:20 PM, Thomas Widmann wrote: >> >>> What I'd really like to know is whether the relevant parts of TeX have >>> been Luafied already (in which case

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 28 June 2017 at 12:57, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/28/2017 1:20 PM, Thomas Widmann wrote: > >> What I'd really like to know is whether the relevant parts of TeX have >> been Luafied already (in which case I might do it soon), or whether >> doing this would require making changes to

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 6/28/2017 1:20 PM, Thomas Widmann wrote: Thanks, Hans! I never expected it to work out of the box, and I'm quite happy to do a lot of programming to make it work. What I'd really like to know is whether the relevant parts of TeX have been Luafied already (in which case I might do it soon),

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 28 June 2017 at 12:04, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/28/2017 11:16 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote: >> >> If the answer is 'no', that's OK. I reckon it might be, given that TeX >> builds the paragraphs first and then split them to create pages, and I >> basically want the page builder to be

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 6/28/2017 11:16 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote: On 26 June 2017 at 10:31, Thomas Widmann wrote: [...] 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

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 26 June 2017 at 10:31, Thomas Widmann wrote: > [...] 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,

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 25 June 2017 at 12:16, Hans Hagen 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

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 6/24/2017 4:48 PM, Thomas Widmann wrote: On 24 June 2017 at 01:19, Henri Menke wrote: How about putting every entry into a box, making it unbreakable? Of course, you get unbalanced columns this way, but I think keeping the entries together is easier for the reader.

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 24 June 2017 at 01:19, Henri Menke wrote: > > How about putting every entry into a box, making it unbreakable? Of course, > you get unbalanced > columns this way, but I think keeping the entries together is easier for the > reader. Thanks for your suggestion, but I

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 17:52 +0100, Thomas Widmann wrote: > On 23 June 2017 at 14:21, Thomas Widmann wrote: > > > > On 20 June 2017 at 20:33, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > > > > On 6/20/2017 11:53 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > On 20 June 2017

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 23 June 2017 at 14:21, Thomas Widmann wrote: > On 20 June 2017 at 20:33, Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 6/20/2017 11:53 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote: >>> >>> On 20 June 2017 at 10:41, Henri Menke wrote: On Tue, 2017-06-20 at

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 20 June 2017 at 20:33, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/20/2017 11:53 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote: >> >> On 20 June 2017 at 10:41, Henri Menke wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 09:22 +0100, Thomas Widmann wrote: I recently started experimenting

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 6/20/2017 11:53 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote: On 20 June 2017 at 10:41, Henri Menke wrote: On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 09:22 +0100, Thomas Widmann wrote: I recently started experimenting with using ConTeXt (mkiv) for dictionary typesetting. It's a much more attractive option

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On 20 June 2017 at 10:41, Henri Menke wrote: > > On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 09:22 +0100, Thomas Widmann wrote: > > > > I recently started experimenting with using ConTeXt (mkiv) for dictionary > > typesetting. It's a much > > more attractive option than plain TeX or LaTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 09:22 +0100, Thomas Widmann wrote: > Hello, > > I recently started experimenting with using ConTeXt (mkiv) for dictionary > typesetting. It's a much > more attractive option than plain TeX or LaTeX because of the support for > typesetting on a grid. > > However, grid