Re: [NTG-context] Hyphentation/Linebreak after x characters

23 Apr 2020


      Thanks Wolfgang, this works perfectly. I will add this hint tomorrow to the Wiki.
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On 23 Apr 2020, at 23:50, Wolfgang Schuster  wrote:
Benjamin Buchmuller schrieb am 23.04.2020 um 23:16:
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Hi Rik,
Thanks for the fast reply! Your example works indeed nicely. However, within this solution my problem has shifted now (fully) towards breaking after the same number of characters, which seems to work for your sample string, but not for the sequences that I need to place.
What I would like to achieve is something like:
5’-GATTGCTTACTCCTGGTTGG
TGGGGCTTACATTCTGTCGCCTC
AAAACTACTAGAGCCGGCATATT
CTAGAAGGGCCGCCTTCATGTGG
etc.
(There might be hyphens or not, this is not so much important to me.)
But what I get is currently:
5'-GATTGCTTACTCCTG-
GTTGGTGGGGCTTACATTCT-
GTCGCCTCAAAACTACTA-
GAGCCGGCATATTCTA-
GAAGGGCCGCCTTCATGTGGC-
etc.
Which looks ragged with \tt. Certainly, this is because ConTeXt applies the default hyphenation pattern. But I guess, there might be no “no language” pattern or is there? Also, I agree, it’s a bit odd that nright/nleft seem to make no difference towards the result.
Hans posted a solution for a similar problem a few years ago [1]
which can be adapted to your problem.
\startluacode
local shared = {
        start  = 1,
        length = 1,
        before = nil,
        after  = nil,
        left   = false,
        right  = false,
    }
local all = table.setmetatableindex({ }, function(t,k)
        return shared
    end)
languages.hyphenators.traditional.installmethod("dna",
        function(dictionary,word,n)
            return all
        end
    )
\stopluacode
\definehyphenationfeatures
 [dna]
 [characters=all,
  alternative=dna]
\starttext
\startframedtext[width=6cm,style=mono]
 \sethyphenationfeatures[dna]
 \setuphyphenation[method=traditional]
 GATTGCTTACTCCTGGTTGG%
 TGGGGCTTACATTCTGTCGCCTC%
 AAAACTACTAGAGCCGGCATATT%
 CTAGAAGGGCCGCCTTCATGTGG%
\stopframedtext
\stoptext
[1] https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2017/089106.html
Wolfgang