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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] roadmap
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 17:37:30 +0200
From: Hans Hagen
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? not now ... it was a mkii experiment more than a decade ago
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