On 24 June 2017 at 01:19, Henri Menke
How about putting every entry into a box, making it unbreakable? Of course, you get unbalanced columns this way, but I think keeping the entries together is easier for the reader.
Thanks for your suggestion, but I don't think that'd work. Firstly, it'd require you to figure out whether an entry is longer than three lines (and thus breakable) before putting it into a box. Secondly, unbalanced columns really aren't the done thing in dictionary publishing. Lots of published dictionaries are full of orphans and widows because they're so hard to avoid without a lot of manual intervention, which is why I'm keen to explore and novel ways to avoid them. However, all ways I can think of requires typesetting the entries in the last column multiple times, i.e.: repeat adjust parameters (column width, looseness, ...) typeset column until the column doesn't generate orphan/widow Is this possible with ConTeXt/LuaTeX? Thomas -- Thomas Widmann Director Complexli Limited +44 789 444 3009