From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: HOWTO: Typesetting Poetry in ConTeXt
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:37:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05D24FDD-293B-4E53-A890-392A928B8471@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1009151903080.4952@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Am 16.09.2010 um 01:12 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, John Haltiwanger wrote:
>
>> In general though, it is completely unnecessary, as poetry generally has no
>> need to be defined in macros. But it's the edge cases, where I live :)
>
> On the contrary, typesetting poerty can be very tricky. This is what I did once to typeset the divine comedy. Don't ask how I figured out the right value of the inbetween key :)
>
> \setupindenting [medium,yes]
> \setuplines[inbetween={\crlf\par\setupindenting[next]\testpage[3]},indenting=next]
You don’t need \testpage to keep the lines together, with the “option=packed”
setting there won’t happen a linebreak between the text but the ”preference”
keyword for \blank allows one.
\setuplines
[option=packed,
inbetween={\blank[preference,line]\setupindenting[next]},
indenting=next]
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 9:45 John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:26 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:38 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 22:42 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-09-15 22:43 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:47 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 22:57 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 23:12 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 23:36 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 23:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 23:58 ` Andrea Valle
2010-09-16 7:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2010-09-15 22:43 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:56 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-16 12:44 ` \setuplines[space=on] (was: HOWTO: Typesetting Poetry in ConTeXt) Philipp Gesang
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