Hello Wolfgang Thanks for that - I thought there would probably be a way of manipulating a paragraph through some other mechanism, and the temporary alignment setting does the job. (I'll investigate at some point how to do the reverse since sometimes one wants to lose a line, typically so that a footnote can be squeezed in.) Best wishes John Waś *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! * 🇺🇦* http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail Virus-free.www.avg.com http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 at 16:50, Wolfgang Schuster < wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Am 24.06.2025 um 17:00 schrieb John Was:
Hello. Is there a ConTeXt equivalent for plain TeX's \loosness (which allows the program to lengthening a paragraph, or shorten it if the number is negative). At the final stages of a book this is often useful for getting rid of unsightly gaps.
\showgrid
\starttext
\samplefile{zapf}
\page
\startalignment[normal,verytolerant,stretch,more] \samplefile{zapf} \stopalignment
\page
\startalignment[normal,verytolerant,stretch,2*more] \samplefile{zapf} \stopalignment
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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