Hi, Am trying to control my text in order to appear right aligned. This is how my text looks like after being typeset by context:
From King's Officer to Consul, had he been born a year earlier, a certain Napo- leone Buonaparte (1769-1821) would not have been French, since his native isle of Corsica was only annexed by France in 1768. Like all poor but gifted no- bles, he attended a military academy, becoming an officer at sixteen. The French Revolution and wars favoured his swift promotion.
by age 24 he was a general, and swept from victory to victory in Italy and Egypt, after a bold coup d'état he was proclaimed consul. I don't understand why the last paragraph is typeset like this. There are several paragraphs before which are typeset correctly. What can i do to control this ? Many thanks. Dirar. PS. As the text depends on some font i have, i can't provide an example that could illustrate more than this (Typesetting changes according to font u use ..).
Hellor Dirar,
Am trying to control my text in order to appear right aligned. This is how my text looks like after being typeset by context:
What is your point? Does your text stick out to the right? Then play with \setuptolerance. If not make an example....
PS. As the text depends on some font i have, i can't provide an example that could illustrate more than this (Typesetting changes according to font u use ..).
... Oh, then perhaps you could try to make an example with the original setup? You could also try to make a small pdf file and if possible, put it on the web somewhere. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net
Hi Dirar and others, the sample pdf has the following problem: | | | l’expression | | | th word(s) "l'expression" stick into the right margin. This is (I guess) due to the following facts: 1) TeX will use the right margin for words if the other solution for a line breaking problem would be to stretch the innerword spacing. TeX has complicated rules for determining the "badness" of a solution, the badness of stretching in your case is obviously higher then the badness of sticking into the margin. You have to play with TeX's parameters to decrease the badness of interword spacing (but see also 2)). In your case you set \tolerance to 200, which is very intolerant :-) So, for an example, say \tolerance 8000 (or use the ConTeXt way like \setuptolerance[verytolerant] -- never do this in a real world text!). Then your text should look ugly again, but in another way. There are quite few parameters for interfering TeXs paragraph builder. 2) TeX should hyphenate the word "expression" in some way, but doesn't do it. I am not sure where the allowed breakpoints are, but you might want to tell TeX. Perhaps "expression" can be hyphenated but "l'expression" not. But I don't know what to do here, other french writers should help you with that problem. Use \showhypens{....} to find out about the hypenation places. There is no magic to your problem :-) Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net
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