On 5/15/2018 9:17 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 05/14/2018 05:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Hi,
The ConTeXt meeting is - as usual - the right place and moment to
discuss the roadmap. We never had real binding roadmaps, more informal
ones. Anyway, here are some thoughts on the two main components: MkIV
and LuaTeX.
ConTeXt MkIV:
[...]
- Check what additional features users want (miss) and decide to what
extent and with what priority we will put effort in this. We've reached
a point where interference prevents more complex extensions.
Hans,
I wonder whether it would be possible to implement a feature that you
mentioned in the past.
In order to avoid widow and orphan lines, you mentioned that it would be
possible to automatically adapt the interline space for the page, so
that it may have one more line to avoid orphans (when interline space is
decreased) or it may move a line to the next page to avoid widows
(increasing the interline space in the present page).
Would it be possible to add this feature to ConTeXt?
actually it was something that came up when talking with Hermann Zapf
years ago: he suggested to just vertically scale the text area (i
actully implemented that an hour later) ... his opinion was that only a
very small percentage of readers will notice (at that time we did
experiments with hz, the expansion in pdftex: in fact nobody noticed
that too, real interesting was that texies commented on all kind of
things related to how tex is supposed to work: a clear demonstration
that the average user knows what the virtues of tex are but not really
sees it)
I have another feature request for notes, but I would like to know
whether the feature to avoid widow and orphan lines can be implemented
in ConTeXt.
you can always ask ... giving it priority is another matter
Hans
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