On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:54:07 +0100, Mats Broberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
Hej Mats! I would like to recommend the interesting document http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/style.pdf Mvh, Micke P PS Fun to see another swede here on the list DS _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
