On 28 June 2017 at 12:04, Hans Hagen
On 6/28/2017 11:16 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote:
If the answer is 'no', that's OK. I reckon it might be, given that TeX builds the paragraphs first and then split them to create pages, and I basically want the page builder to be able to rebuild certain paragraphs to make them fit, which goes against TeX's basic design.
However, if were is somehow possible with LuaTeX, it would open up a lot of possibilities, and not just for dictionary typesetting.
one can of course make it work somehow, but it's not something standard and takes some coding and testing ... a rather specialized sub mechanism
(basically most of what one wants can be done, but that doesn't mean that all gets implemented; normally i only do such more complex things if i need it in a project, unless it is some rainy day fun project)
Thanks, Hans! I never expected it to work out of the box, and I'm quite happy to do a lot of programming to make it work. What I'd really like to know is whether the relevant parts of TeX have been Luafied already (in which case I might do it soon), or whether doing this would require making changes to LuaTeX itself (in which I might not want to touch this yet)… Thomas -- Thomas Widmann Director Complexli Limited +44 789 444 3009