2011/1/4 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
Am 04.01.2011 um 18:51 schrieb Philipp A.:
so [textdistance=medium] is the solution, thanks!
nevertheless, i couldn’t find documentation about “textdistance”,
The option was added last march and it’s now up to you to document it.
The values for the key are
none : no distance between items
small : half the value of a normal space, can be stretched by half of a em
medium : normal space distance, can be stretched by 1em
big : 1em, can be stretched or shrinked by a space width
<skip> : e.g. 3pt plus 2pt minus 1pt
and i don’t think it to be very intuitive, that this changes the space to be more flexible.
sorry but i forgot why we used these values, maybe a smaller stretch value for small and medium make sense
i don’t think so (or at least not much less), and i meant sth. different: “textdistance=medium” does not mean “greater flexibility”, it does mean “no change in flexibility, just in distance”. using medium as standard value would be ok, though, because you get the flexible (=mostly better) behavior as standard, and the rigid as option.
would you mind telling me why this is the case, and why this isn’t standard behavior?
backward compatibility, i would also prefer “medium” as default value
can’t we just screw backward compatibility at all costs here? i mean: “medium” won’t make it worse in most cases, just better! (the maximum space is 1em+1sp, so we probably will never get different hyphenation, but almost always less overfull \hboxes)
also, \setbreakpoints[compound] should be standard in my opinion.
thanks for the answer,
phil