Certainly works -- thanks Wolfgang.
Stymies me how people on this mailing list know this stuff -- even a Google
search for "setbreakpoints", assuming I knew the command in advance, returns
nada.
James
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 03.03.10 20:19, schrieb James Fisher:
>
> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I'm experiencing an issue where, when the width of a block of text is
>> small, the occasional word sticks out from the otherwise flush right. I've
>> previously seen an example of this in an image on the contextgarden wiki,
>> but now can't find it. To reproduce what I mean, compile this with Mark IV:
>>
>> \mainlanguage[en]
>> \usetypescript[palatino]
>> \setupbodyfont[palatino,11pt]
>>
> In this case you don't need \usetypescript.
>
> \setuppapersize[A4][A4]
>>
>> \setuphead[title][header=empty]
>>
>> \starttext
>> \title{Personal statement}
>>
>> \startcolumns[n=2]
>> This heavily-hyphenated
>> jauntily-formatted
>> flush-left
>> flush-right
>> justified-text
>> paragraph set in
>> a two-column layout and
>> subtly-quirky-but-never-offensive
>> Palatino shouldn't produce
>> out-of-flush
>> sticking-out-like-a-sore-thumb
>> words from the
>> flush-right.
>> \stopcolumns
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>> In this example, the string 'sticking-out-like-a-sore-thumb' sticks out to
>> approx 3mm from the right edge of the paper. In this situation, I would
>> much prefer that that string is hyphenated, using one of the hyphens already
>> in the string.
>>
>> Based on one other test (in which my text was far less hyphenated than the
>> above), it seems that the hyphenation algorithm refuses to hyphenate strings
>> of words that are already hyphenated. Is this true? If so, is it
>> deliberate? And how do I turn it off? (And do other people agree with me
>> that it's awfully ugly?)
>>
> Add \setbreakpoints[compound] to your file.
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
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