Dear listmembers, I would say that the risk of getting rivers in text typeset using TeX & children is minimum, as long as you choose sensible values for typesize and column width. And much, much less than in MS Word, InDesign, QuarkXPress etc.
Btw, here are a few 'Typographical Dreams' of mine, regarding ConTeXt: - Penalty if consecutive lines have the same words typeset exactly above each other - e.g. in the beginning of a line, in the middle of the line etc. Catches your eye. - Penalty for a hyphenated word as the last word on a page. And not putting it in an \mbox. - In Swedish, if the last line in a column is the first line in a new paragraph, this last line is called "simple child of a whore". If the first line on a new page is the last line of the preceding page's last paragraph, this line is called "double child of a whore". Now, in InDesign and QuarkXPress you can set the software to move over the "simple child of a whore" to the next page, and, for "double child of a whore", to move over a few extra lines to the new page. However, this leaves you with a page that is one or more lines short. When working in these software, you can then slightly, slightly increase the spacing between letters on the page (perhaps only a few thousands of an em). If you are lucky, one of the preceding paragraph expands just enough for its last line move over to a second line, and you're home free. However, for book projects hundreds of pages long, this is something you'd want to automate. Don't know if it is possible in ConTeXt to automate this, but it would be great if it was. Best regards, Mats Broberg > Ciro A. Soto wrote: > > The knowlegeable John Culleton said in one of the > > lists that he could recognize if a book was typeset > > with > > MS-word by looking at the "rivers" and the lack of > > but tex is *not* avoiding rivers, since it does not look at it -) _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
