On 2013–07–24 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Apparently \brokenpenalty is not supposed to be used with > > \setpenalties, see spac-ver.mkiv : > > > > \setpenalties\widowpenalties\plustwo\maxdimen > > \setpenalties\clubpenalties \plustwo\maxdimen > > \brokenpenalty \maxdimen > > > > Actually I don't yet know what's the deal with the \setpenalties > > command and why it's used for some penalties and not for others. > > You have to differ between the \…penalty command which come > from Knuths TeX and \…penalties which are introduced with etex. > > While Knuths command accept only a single value (e.g. \widowpenlty=1000) > the new commands accepts multiple values which are taken for individual > lines of a paragraph (e.g. \widowpenalties 3 3000 4500 9000).
I learned something new today. > The \setpenalties command simplifies the setups of the new commands. Combined with the aforementioned new knowledge, this totally makes sense. > The reason why \widowpenalties doesn’t work with \setpenalties is that > no command with this names exist (I never checked this for my example > in the past). I couldn't find the definition neither in the TeXbook, nor the ConTeXt sources. That's why. Thanks for the explanation. Marco
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