On 05/16/2018 05:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
[...] 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) [...] 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
Would it be possible to have it in MkIV?
Many thanks for your help,
On 5/16/2018 7:59 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: probably but not today (and i need to think about it first as it might have side effects 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------