Mats Broberg wrote:
- make inter-column spacing a bit bigger/smaller
- make page slightly larger/smaller
- increse/decrease bodyfont size
- etc
the problem is that one can end up in oscillating
Hans
Wouldn't it be possible to use something like \ballast, in the way it is
used in the ledmac
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:54:07 +0100, Mats Broberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear listmembers,
I would say that the risk of getting rivers in text typeset using TeX
children is minimum, as long as you choose sensible values for typesize
and column width. And much, much less than in MS Word,
Mats Broberg wrote:
Btw, here are a few 'Typographical Dreams' of mine, regarding ConTeXt:
- Penalty if consecutive lines have the same words typeset exactly above
each other - e.g. in the beginning of a line, in the middle of the line
etc. Catches your eye.
since it has to do with extending tex
Hej Mats!
I would like to recommend the interesting document
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/style.pdf
Mvh, Micke P
PS
Fun to see another swede here on the list
DS
Thanks - I knew about that manual already.
Best regards,
Mats Broberg
P.S. Likewise...! D.S.
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
The knowlegeable John Culleton said in one of the
lists that he could recognize if a book was typeset
with
MS-word by looking at the rivers and the lack of
but tex is *not* avoiding rivers, since it does not look at it -)
hyphenation. I then checked my 310-page book I am
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Try this: \showhyphens{hyphenation}
It should print
Underfull \hbox (badness 1) in paragraph at lines 2--2
[] \*10ptrmtf* hy-phen-ation
on your terminal. If it doesn't, ConTeXt refuses the hyphenate
English, possibly because the patterns were not loaded in the
format
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
The knowlegeable John Culleton said in one of the
lists that he could recognize if a book was typeset
with
MS-word by looking at the rivers and the lack of
hyphenation. I then checked my 310-page book I am
typesetting with context and not a single line had a
hyphenated
The knowlegeable John Culleton said in one of the
lists that he could recognize if a book was typeset
with
MS-word by looking at the rivers and the lack of
hyphenation. I then checked my 310-page book I am
typesetting with context and not a single line had a
hyphenated word at the end.
So, my
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Subject: [NTG-context] lack of hyphenation
The knowlegeable John Culleton said in one of the
lists that he could recognize if a book was typeset
with
MS-word
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
So, my question is: Is it okay? or do I need to set
any parameter to allow hyphenation?
I do have
\tolerance=1, because I don't like lines longer
than the rest, but I thought I could still get some
hyphenated words. Am I right?
Yes, you are right. Assuming you do not have
Ciro A. Soto wrote:
Thank you Taco,
this is what I get. I got a *similar* line
to what you sent, but not the same. Is it ok?
ciro
looks fine, so perhaps you have disabled hyphenation
by using something like \setuptolerance[verytolerant],
or they were truly unnecesary (it is possible)
Taco
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