Hi all, At the end of June, Hans uploaded a new lmtx version which included improvements to par building which he and Mikael had been working on in math mode. Hans suggested in the online chat that these improvements may be useful in typesetting novels. I was keen to try these since I have typset novels in the past. I have ran some tests on two novels which I downloaded from the Gutenberg Project site as epubs and extracted them to get the original xhtml files which I then typeset in context. I made very little in the way of changes to the files so that my setup for xml was very simple. Here are my setups for the layout of the novels showing some trackers that were used as well: \definepapersize[pagee][width=5.06in,height=7.81in] \setuppapersize[pagee] % XML setups here \startsetups[grid][mypenalties] \setdefaultpenalties \setpenalties\widowpenalties{1}{150} \setpenalties\clubpenalties {1}{150} \stopsetups \setuplayout[ width=10cm, topspace=0.5in, backspace=2.0cm, header=7.5mm, footer=0.25in, location={middle,middle}, vs=2, grid=yes, setups=mypenalties ] %\enabletrackers[makeup] %\enabletrackers[builders.hpack.quality] \enabletrackers[builders.hpack.overflow] %\enabletrackers[layout.vz] %\enabletrackers[paragraphs.passes] \enabletrackers[paragraphs.passes=summary] %\enabletrackers[paragraphs.passes=details] \setupalign[granular] %\setupalign[nothyphenated,hz,verytolerant] %\setupalign[vertical,height] %\setupalignpass[decent] %\setupalignpass[quality] %\setupalignpass[test1] \setupalignpass[test2] %\setupalignpass[test3] %\setupalignpass[test4] %\setupalignpass[test5] %\setupalignpass[optional1] %\setupalignpass[test2b] \starttext \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,middle},alternative=doublesided,state=start] \setcounter[userpage][1] %\showmakeup[vbox] %\showlayout \dostepwiserecurse{0}{30}{1}{ \xmlprocessfile{mysetups}{/path to xhtml files/4439720318703948998_84-h-\recurselevel.htm.xhtml}{} } \stoptext Below are the result showing the number of overfull boxes for these novels using the setups in the file spac-imp-tests.mkxl . See the manual Low Level - Lines Test Novel1 Novel2 Test1 70 35 Test2 30 8 Test3 62 23 Test4 89 40 Test5 28 9 Optional1 55 19 Quality 74 32 Decent 39 11 From these initial tests one can see that Test2 gave the lowest number of overfull boxes. So I edited test two, ran it, and the results are below. Test Novel1 Novel2 Test2b 11 0 My setup for test 2b is as follows: \startsetups align:pass:test2b \pretolerance 100 \tolerance 200 \parpasses 3 classes \indecentparpassclasses threshold 0.025pt tolerance 800 extrahyphenpenalty 50 next threshold 0.025pt tolerance 900 adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 10 adjustspacingstretch 15 next threshold 0.025pt tolerance 1000 adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 20 adjustspacingstretch 40 emergencystretch .25\bodyfontsize \relax % \linebreakpasses\plusone \stopsetups The only difference between test 2 and 2b are that I increased the tolerance in each of the three passes. In novel 2 this was successful in eliminating the overfull boxes but not in Novel 1 although I noticed that majority of overfull boxes were above 1pt with the largest about 12pt in Novel 1. I am at the stage now where I need some kind of strategy to reduce/eliminate overfull boxes, other than changing the tolerance, and I'm hoping for some advice from the community. Suggestions for further reading particularly on the commands in \setupalignpass and their usage would be appreciated and on the best way to tackle overfull boxes. Best Wishes Keith McKay
On 7/21/2023 5:34 PM, Keith McKay wrote: pretolerance 50 and tolerance 150 and then in the passes 200 Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Keith, Here an example that Mikael made for such a book: \showframe % let's very strict \startsetups [*default] \directsetup{*reset} \frozen\widowpenalty 10000 \frozen\clubpenalty 10000 \frozen\displaywidowpenalty 10000 \frozen\brokenpenalty 0 % \defaultbrokenpenalty \stopsetups % we enable the use of expansion (this feature might become preset % because we now delay setting the vectors anyway so less overhead) \definefontfeature [default] [default] [expansion=quality, protrusion=quality, itlc=yes] % vertical expansion \setuplayout [vz=2] % for which we need: % \setupalign[hanging,depth,stretch,granular] \setupalign[depth,stretch,granular] % here are the passes: \startsetups align:pass:test4 \pretolerance 100 \tolerance 200 \parpasses 4 classes \indecentparpassclasses threshold 0.025pt adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 5 adjustspacingstretch 10 next classes \indecentparpassclasses threshold 0.025pt adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 10 adjustspacingstretch 20 next classes \indecentparpassclasses threshold 0.025pt adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 25 adjustspacingstretch 50 next classes \indecentparpassclasses threshold 0.025pt adjustspacing 3 adjustspacingstep 1 adjustspacingshrink 50 adjustspacingstretch 100 \relax \stopsetups \setupalignpass[test4] \starttext ... \stoptext (work in progress so keep an eye on updates) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi all! Using the example below I have completed a test using a larger book. This time I downloaded War and Peace from the Gutenberg Project and extracted the individual xhtml files for Context. I played around with the setups for the align:pass:test4 code below, as Hans suggested, and it was changing the \tolerance value which made the difference. Increasing the \tolerance value to 1000 eliminated all overfull hboxes but still left 79 underfull hboxes. I continued to increase the \tolerance value up to 6600 and was left with two overfull hboxes. One with a badness of 6641 (warAndPeace1.png) and one with a badness of 1097 (warAndPeace2.png). Above the \tolerance of 6600 only warAndPeace2.png was left with a badness of 1097. Both of these underfull hboxes were at the beginning of a paragraph - "To his Honor" in the first png and "Well, you see," in the second png. I not sure a reader would spot the second png badness but the first is noticeable to my eyes. I'm very pleased how the book has turned out, all 1668 pages of it as an approximately 13cm by 20cm book. The pdf is 4MB and each run in ConTeXt takes about 10 seconds on my M1 mac mini. I'm interested in seeing how \setupalignpass develops and learning more of how to use it. Best Wishes Keith McKay On 21/07/2023 17:33, Keith McKay wrote:
Hraban's suggestion works really well. I setup hyphenation rules for the underfull boxes of Russian names and reduced the \tolerance to 600. I'm now down to about 20 underfull boxes which to my eyes look fine. Thanks again Hraban Best Wishes Keith On 28/07/2023 19:20, Keith McKay wrote:
Dear List members, For my academic work with context I need the following cite according to Apa standards: Knuth (1984, p. 12) mentions …. The matrix is this: AUTHOR (YYYY, p.~n). I reckon this can somehow be accomplished with the \setupbtx command. (Standard these and other variants are possible: AUTHOR (YYYY) and AUTHOR YYYY, p. n.) I tried different setups: \setupbtx[apa:cite:authoryear], and \setupbtx[apa:cite:authoryears], I played with the lefttext, righttext and other options, but none of them give the desired result. Thank you for any suggestions. Regards, Robert @article{Knuth1984, author={Knuth, Donald E.}, title={Literate Programming}, journal={The Computer Journal}, Volume={27}, Number={2}, year={1984}, Pages={97--111}, }
Using the APA specification: \usebtxdefinitions [apa] you can then \cite[alternative=authoryears,righttext={{, p.\nbsp 12}}] [Knuth1984] mentions …. The tricky part concerning righttext= is the double {{ }}, needed because the text contains a comma. The reason for this is simple, as righttext is a comma-separated list, where each entry corresponds to a cited reference, as in \cite[righttext={a,b}] [ref1,ref2] so a is associated with ref1 and b is associated with ref2. Alan On 01/08/23 01/08/23, 15:37, Robert via ntg-context wrote:
Thank you, Alan for the suggestion. I tried as you said: \cite[alternative=authoryears,righttext={{, p. 3}}][Knuth1984]. Yet the result is this: Knuth (1984), , p. 3 If I leave out the first comma, the result is: Knuth (1984), p. 3 Righttext probably refers to the text outside the parentheses. Thank you in advance, Robert.
Indeed, one does not need the comma, it is programmed in the style. You can see this in the manual, on p. 43 documenting citations. The style is setup to put the righttext inside the parenthesis for alternative=authoryear and outside of the year parenthesis for alternative=authoryears. I looked carefully in the APA Style Guide and did not find any suggestion that one should use Knuth (1984, p. 3). The variant (Knuth, 1984, p. 3) is documented. You can make the following changes (untested) \setupbtx [apa:cite:author:years] [right=] \setupbtx [apa:cite:authoryears] [right={)}] to get the other behavior. -- Alan On 01/08/23 01/08/23, 23:26, Robert via ntg-context wrote:
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