On 6/24/2017 4:48 PM, Thomas Widmann wrote:
On 24 June 2017 at 01:19, Henri Menke <[email protected]> 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?
maybe be more explicit with very large penalties helps
\startdocument
\showmakeup[penalty]
\startbuffer
\dorecurse{30}{
\widowpenalty\maxdimen
\clubpenalty \maxdimen
{\tf test #1.1}\crlf
{\bi test #1.2}\crlf
{\tf test #1.3}\crlf
{\bf test #1.4}\relax
\par
}
\stopbuffer
\dorecurse{20}{
\dontcomplain
\startmixedcolumns[balance=yes]
\dorecurse{#1}{line #1\crlf}
\getbuffer
\stopmixedcolumns
\page
}
\stopdocument
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