Hello list, here and there on the Net there are slightly different ways to activate the microtypography functionality in a ConTeXt document. My question is: what is the most correct and clean way to do it? Thanks in advance Tommaso
On Wed, 2022-05-25 at 15:51 +0200, Tommaso Gordini via ntg-context wrote:
Hello list,
here and there on the Net there are slightly different ways to activate the microtypography functionality in a ConTeXt document.
My question is: what is the most correct and clean way to do it?
I do not claim that this is the cleanest way. Probably it's better to define a separate font feature for microtypography rather than overwriting the default set, but this definitely works: \definefontfeature[default][default] [protrusion=quality, expansion=quality] \setupbodyfont[modern] % or whatever \setupalign[hz,hanging] Unfortunately the global alignment settings do not propagate into certain structures. For example itemizations, captions, and bibliographies just reset it and need special treatment: \setupitemize[each][align={hz,hanging}] \setupbtxlist[align={hz,hanging,tolerant}] \setupcaption[figure][align={justified,hz,hanging}] I think captions are not justified by default, so that might or might not matter to you. Bibliographies are usually full or names and academic words that do not hyphenate well, so adding tolerant relaxes that a little bit. Cheers, Henri
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Thank you, Henri!
Tommaso
Il mer 25 mag 2022, 16:59 Henri Menke via ntg-context
On Wed, 2022-05-25 at 15:51 +0200, Tommaso Gordini via ntg-context wrote:
Hello list,
here and there on the Net there are slightly different ways to activate the microtypography functionality in a ConTeXt document.
My question is: what is the most correct and clean way to do it?
I do not claim that this is the cleanest way. Probably it's better to define a separate font feature for microtypography rather than overwriting the default set, but this definitely works:
\definefontfeature[default][default] [protrusion=quality, expansion=quality]
\setupbodyfont[modern] % or whatever
\setupalign[hz,hanging]
Unfortunately the global alignment settings do not propagate into certain structures. For example itemizations, captions, and bibliographies just reset it and need special treatment:
\setupitemize[each][align={hz,hanging}] \setupbtxlist[align={hz,hanging,tolerant}] \setupcaption[figure][align={justified,hz,hanging}]
I think captions are not justified by default, so that might or might not matter to you. Bibliographies are usually full or names and academic words that do not hyphenate well, so adding tolerant relaxes that a little bit.
Cheers, Henri
Thanks in advance Tommaso _____________________________________________________________________ ______________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
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Just a quick addition to Henri’s answer : You can also define your own align definition, see https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg100832.html
That will probably make your life a bit easier.
Best,
Denis
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Hello list,
here and there on the Net there are slightly different ways to activate the microtypography functionality in a ConTeXt document.
My question is: what is the most correct and clean way to do it?
I do not claim that this is the cleanest way. Probably it's better to define a separate font feature for microtypography rather than overwriting the default set, but this definitely works: \definefontfeature[default][default] [protrusion=quality, expansion=quality] \setupbodyfont[modern] % or whatever \setupalign[hz,hanging] Unfortunately the global alignment settings do not propagate into certain structures. For example itemizations, captions, and bibliographies just reset it and need special treatment: \setupitemize[each][align={hz,hanging}] \setupbtxlist[align={hz,hanging,tolerant}] \setupcaption[figure][align={justified,hz,hanging}] I think captions are not justified by default, so that might or might not matter to you. Bibliographies are usually full or names and academic words that do not hyphenate well, so adding tolerant relaxes that a little bit. Cheers, Henri
Thanks in advance Tommaso _____________________________________________________________________ ______________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
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