On 05/15/2018 11:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 5/15/2018 9:17 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >> [...] >> 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 must confess that I can recognize hanging characters, but quality expansion is impossible to see (at least, for me). I would even say that if expansion can be seen by a human reader, the results will be crappy. How can I use the vertical scale feature to prevent widows and orphans? Many thanks for your help, Pablo >> 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- http://www.ousia.tk ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
