On 24 June 2017 at 01:19, Henri Menke <henrime...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How about putting every entry into a box, making it unbreakable? Of course, > you get unbalanced > columns this way, but I think keeping the entries together is easier for the > reader.
Thanks for your suggestion, but I don't think that'd work. Firstly, it'd require you to figure out whether an entry is longer than three lines (and thus breakable) before putting it into a box. Secondly, unbalanced columns really aren't the done thing in dictionary publishing. Lots of published dictionaries are full of orphans and widows because they're so hard to avoid without a lot of manual intervention, which is why I'm keen to explore and novel ways to avoid them. However, all ways I can think of requires typesetting the entries in the last column multiple times, i.e.: repeat adjust parameters (column width, looseness, ...) typeset column until the column doesn't generate orphan/widow Is this possible with ConTeXt/LuaTeX? Thomas -- Thomas Widmann Director Complexli Limited +44 789 444 3009 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
