Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Mohammad Hossein Bateni
I once converted part of the xepersian package dealing with Kashida to ConTeXt (on LuaTeX). Being a newcomer, the result wasn't that great, though it did work for many situations. In a couple of weeks, I will have time to clean it up a bit and share with anyone who's interested. —MHB On Mon,

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Mon, 9 May 2016 10:51:23 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > > Wasn't in obvious that I was joking? > > (Even though deep down I feared someone would reply with "here it > > is".) > > well, its more like challenging us (in fact i remember messing a bit > with this

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Hans Åberg
> On 9 May 2016, at 12:15, Arthur Reutenauer > wrote: > >> PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and >> >> \startalign[snakes] >> ... >> \stopalign > > The snakes idea is actually pretty close to the practice of Kashida in > Arabic

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9 May 2016 at 12:35, Ulrike Fischer wrote: > Am Mon, 9 May 2016 09:41:39 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > >> http://xkcd.com/1676/ > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307795/how-to-create-nonbreaking-arbitrary-length-snakes-for-full-width-justification Oh great, no need to fiddle with

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Ulrike Fischer
Am Mon, 9 May 2016 09:41:39 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > http://xkcd.com/1676/ http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/307795/how-to-create-nonbreaking-arbitrary-length-snakes-for-full-width-justification -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
> PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and > > \startalign[snakes] > ... > \stopalign The snakes idea is actually pretty close to the practice of Kashida in Arabic typography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashida), doesn’t ConTeXt already support that somehow?

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/9/2016 11:12 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi, Mojca: Wasn't in obvious that I was joking? (Even though deep down I feared someone would reply with "here it is”.) I actually thought about doing just that ;) But it will take more work than is justified for simply an email reply. And it is a

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Hi, > > > Mojca: > > Wasn't in obvious that I was joking? > > (Even though deep down I feared someone would reply with "here it is”.) > > I actually thought about doing just that ;) But it will take more work > than is

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Mikael P. Sundqvist wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Mojca Miklavec > wrote: > > http://xkcd.com/1676/ > > > > Mojca > > > > > > PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and > > > >

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Mikael P. Sundqvist
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > http://xkcd.com/1676/ > > Mojca > > > PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and > > \startalign[snakes] > ... > \stopalign >

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, > Mojca: > Wasn't in obvious that I was joking? > (Even though deep down I feared someone would reply with "here it is”.) I actually thought about doing just that ;) But it will take more work than is justified for simply an email reply. And it is a nice teaching opportunity, so we plan to

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 May 2016 at 10:28, Hans Hagen wrote: > > On 5/9/2016 9:41 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> > >> http://xkcd.com/1676/ > >> > >> Mojca > >> > >> > >> PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/9/2016 10:42 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On 9 May 2016 at 10:28, Hans Hagen wrote: On 5/9/2016 9:41 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: http://xkcd.com/1676/ Mojca PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and \startalign[snakes] ... \stopalign not to hard to implement but also

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9 May 2016 at 10:28, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 5/9/2016 9:41 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> http://xkcd.com/1676/ >> >> Mojca >> >> >> PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and >> >> \startalign[snakes] >> ... >> \stopalign > > > not to hard to implement but also not that high

Re: [NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5/9/2016 9:41 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: http://xkcd.com/1676/ Mojca PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and \startalign[snakes] ... \stopalign not to hard to implement but also not that high my list to demo it

[NTG-context] [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)

2016-05-09 Thread Mojca Miklavec
http://xkcd.com/1676/ Mojca PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and \startalign[snakes] ... \stopalign ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!