On 7/18/2022 11:24 PM, Benjamin Buchmuller via ntg-context wrote:
This is the friendly reminder you requested for the "crappyspecs" parbuilder as
per your example in early July.
m-crappyspec is in the next upload
Hans
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Dear Hans,
This is the friendly reminder you requested for the "crappyspecs" parbuilder as
per your example in early July.
With
ConTeXt ver: 2022.07.06 21:42 LMTX fmt: 2022.7.8
I get
tex error > tex error on line 12 in file ./test-wrapping2.tex: Undefined
control sequence
On 6/27/2022 12:32 AM, Max Chernoff via ntg-context wrote:
On 2022-06-26 9:59 a.m., Benjamin Buchmuller wrote:
I forgot about \leftskip. Replace "tex.hsize" with "tex.hsize -
tex.leftskip.width" and everything should work properly. Using
localhsize would also work, whenever it's non-zero.
On 2022-06-26 9:59 a.m., Benjamin Buchmuller wrote:
Hi Max,
Thank you so much for your help and pointing me to the documents; always a lot
of things to learn in TeX!
No problem :)
I'm afraid that including the hyphen width doesn't solve the issue yet. It
seems to move the problem to other
I completely agree, Hans, that such specifications are often made without a
second thought on them. And Max is probably right that they originated from the
typewriter area.
In a sense these "challenges" can be at least somewhat educational. I've
learnt---also thanks to Max's suggestions---a
On 6/25/2022 10:25 PM, Benjamin Buchmuller via ntg-context wrote:
Dear list,
A brief follow-up for (1) itemizations [resolved; but question on ConTeXt hsize
defaults] and (2) hyphenation [troubles].
(1) To deal with itemizations and other situation where texts are indented such
as:
Hi Max,
Thank you so much for your help and pointing me to the documents; always a lot
of things to learn in TeX!
I'm afraid that including the hyphen width doesn't solve the issue yet. It
seems to move the problem to other parts of the text. My guess is that one
could equivalently have said
On 6/25/2022 5:38 PM, Benjamin Buchmuller via ntg-context wrote:
Wow, that works like a charm! Thank you, Max!
It's also a very insightful example of how to use and inject Lua code in the TeX output
routine. Do you mind if I add it to the wiki? (Probably under "Wrapping".)
I didn't check it
It's also a very insightful example of how to use and inject Lua code in the TeX output routine.
This is injecting Lua code before the paragraph builder, not in the
output routine. Something like
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/644613/270600 or my module
"lua-widow-control" would be an
Dear list,
A brief follow-up for (1) itemizations [resolved; but question on ConTeXt hsize
defaults] and (2) hyphenation [troubles].
(1) To deal with itemizations and other situation where texts are indented such
as:
\setuppapersize[landscape,letter]
\showframe
\starttext
Wow, that works like a charm! Thank you, Max!
It's also a very insightful example of how to use and inject Lua code in the
TeX output routine. Do you mind if I add it to the wiki? (Probably under
"Wrapping".)
Many thanks again!
Benjamin
> On Jun 24, 2022, at 01:44, Max Chernoff wrote:
>
On 6/24/2022 5:15 AM, Benjamin Buchmuller via ntg-context wrote:
Dear list,
I've been confronted with the following 'intriguing' formatting requirement for
a document:
"
• Type density: Must be no more than 15 characters per linear inch (including
characters and spaces).
• Line spacing:
Am 24.06.22 um 05:15 schrieb Benjamin Buchmuller via ntg-context:
• Type density: Must be no more than 15 characters per linear inch (including
characters and spaces).
This talks about "type density", not characters per line. This depends
mostly on the font (and letterspacing). I.e. you
I've been confronted with the following 'intriguing' formatting requirement for
a document:
"Intriguing" is definitely right here. I suspect these guidelines were
made for typewriters and haven't been updated since.
to limit the number of glyphs per line to 112.
112 characters per line
Dear list,
I've been confronted with the following 'intriguing' formatting requirement for
a document:
"
• Type density: Must be no more than 15 characters per linear inch (including
characters and spaces).
• Line spacing: Must be no more than six lines per vertical inch.
"
While the line
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