On 28 June 2017 at 12:04, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/28/2017 11:16 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote: >> >> If the answer is 'no', that's OK. I reckon it might be, given that TeX >> builds the paragraphs first and then split them to create pages, and I >> basically want the page builder to be able to rebuild certain >> paragraphs to make them fit, which goes against TeX's basic design. >> >> However, if were is somehow possible with LuaTeX, it would open up a >> lot of possibilities, and not just for dictionary typesetting. > > one can of course make it work somehow, but it's not something standard and > takes some coding and testing ... a rather specialized sub mechanism > > (basically most of what one wants can be done, but that doesn't mean that > all gets implemented; normally i only do such more complex things if i need > it in a project, unless it is some rainy day fun project)
Thanks, Hans! I never expected it to work out of the box, and I'm quite happy to do a lot of programming to make it work. What I'd really like to know is whether the relevant parts of TeX have been Luafied already (in which case I might do it soon), or whether doing this would require making changes to LuaTeX itself (in which I might not want to touch this yet)… 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 : [email protected] / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
