On 9/7/2021 11:49 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
In my magazine and book projects, I sometimes fix pagebreaking by stretching paragraphs with \looseness=1
Unfortunately this works _in my project_ only with MkIV, i.e. \looseness has no effect with LMTX.
I tried different examples (e.g. the attached file) and can’t reproduce the problem, there MkIV and LMTX always behave the same. So it must be something in my settings.
What could cause the difference? I tried English and German and different settings of alignment and tolerance. Might it be font dependent?
explained in manuals ... \startlinenumbering \startparagraph Weit .. beirren. \stopparagraph \stoplinenumbering \startlinenumbering \startparagraph\looseness=+2 Weit .. beirren. \stopparagraph \stoplinenumbering \startlinenumbering \startparagraph Weit .. beirren. \looseness=+2\updateparagraphproperties\stopparagraph \stoplinenumbering in lmxt we freeze the properties set when a paragraph starts (contrary to using the last set value which actually fails when you set it inside a group) so, when you change some property mid paragraph you need to update the properties in order for them to be effective (can be done for looseness only if really needed); that works independent of grouping so it's more robust so .. it's all about more control 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------