On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 16:33:34 +0200 Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

Hi,

in some projects the regular " " (empty space) becomes quite wide, in some justified paragraphs. I guess there is a preset somewhere describing the range how far the space can be shrinked/stretched. So, in these projects I'd like to have the maximum spacewidth set a bit narrower.

Just, where is this definition?

Steffen

Hi Steffen, the ConTeXt command to control the interword space is \setuptolerance, the problem is there is by default (correct if I am wrong) no way to choose a smaller interwordspace. The low level TeX command to overwrite the default value provided by the font ist "\spacefactor normalwidth plus stretchfactor minus shrinkfactor". It is better include such commands only if you know what you are doing. I modified ConTeXts \setupinterlinespace to allow you to choose the option "halfspace" with a narrower interlinespace than the default value (I tested it oly with Latin Modern). It could be a bad idea to change also the shrink and stretch values. \unprotect \startvariables all halfspace: halfspace \stopvariables \def\dosetuptolerance[#1]% {\doifinsetelse\v!vertical{#1}% {\ExpandFirstAfter\processallactionsinset [#1] [ \v!verystrict=>\def\bottomtolerance{}, \v!strict=>\def\bottomtolerance{.050}, \v!tolerant=>\def\bottomtolerance{.075}, \v!verytolerant=>\def\bottomtolerance{.100}]}% {\ExpandFirstAfter\processallactionsinset [#1] [ \v!stretch=>\emergencystretch\bodyfontsize, \v!halfspace=>\spaceskip.25em\!!plus.125em\!!minus.125em\relax, \v!space=>\spaceskip.5em\!!plus.25em\!!minus.25em\relax, \v!verystrict=>\tolerance 200, \v!strict=>\tolerance1500, \v!tolerant=>\tolerance3000, \v!verytolerant=>\tolerance4500]}} \protect \starttext Text text text text text \setuptolerance[halfspace] Text text text text text \stoptext Wolfgang