Santy, Michael wrote:

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to give ConTeXt's line breaking algorithm a hint on where it is allowed to break a line. For example, I want ConTeXt to break lines, if necessary, when it encounters '//' in a string. I don't want to force a line break there, but if context needs to break the line, I want it to be after a "//".

I've been trying various things, but so far I have failed to find a general solution to do this. Normally you would say something like "\penalty-100" to hint that some place is a good place to break a line, but such a hint is never exclusive: TeX will happily use breakpoints elsewhere if those appear to be better to the line breaking algorithm. That's why you would need something like: \def\\{\hskip0pt plus .5\hsize \penalty-100 \hskip0pt plus -.5\hsize} to make the break more attractive. The downside is that this actually works by based on the 'break width' of the line, and because it will not prevent other breaks, the break above will always be taken if the current to-be-broken line is half-full or more already (so a line that may actually fit on one line can be broken in two). Anyway, as you don't mind ragged right typesetting, this should work more or less: \def\specialpar#1% {\begingroup \rightskip=0pt plus \hsize \linepenalty100 \clubpenalty0\widowpenalty0 \hyphenpenalty10000\exhyphenpenalty10000 \def\\{\penalty-50}% #1\endgraf \endgroup} \specialpar{HE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG//\\ NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY.} Note I've added a special macro \\, instead of attemping to automate breaking after //. This 'solution' is far from perfect, but the problem is simply hard. Best wishes, Taco

On Nov 26, 2007 10:08 PM, Santy, Michael wrote:

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to give ConTeXt's line breaking algorithm a hint on where it is allowed to break a line. For example, I want ConTeXt to break lines, if necessary, when it encounters '//' in a string. I don't want to force a line break there, but if context needs to break the line, I want it to be after a "//".

A contrived example of some input text is: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG//NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY.

When this text is rendered by ConTeXt, and it is too big to fit on a single line, I would like it to break like this: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG// NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY.

I can preprocess the source to change spaces into non-breaking spaces and can replace '//' with anything else that I need to, but don't know how to suggest where to break the line. Also note that I do not want any words to be hyphenated nor broken on hyphens.

maybe this can give you more ideas http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/autosize -- luigi ... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org