raggedright

raggedright

[Hans Hagen]

Hi, 

Currently the low level \raggedright macro is defined as: 

\def\raggedright%
  {\setraggedness\rightraggedness

\setraggedskips{0em}{\rightraggedness}{.3333em}{.5em}{0em}{\parindent}}

But some time ago Taco suggested the better alternative: 

\def\raggedright%
  {\setraggedness\rightraggedness

\setraggedskips{0em}{\rightraggedness}{.3333em}{.5em}{1fil}{\parindent}}

Unless one expects big problems context from now on will use this second
one. 

I'm not sure yet about adapting the other ones, but those seem ok. 

The raggedness' depends on the bodyfontsize: 

\def\leftraggedness   {2\bodyfontsize}
\def\rightraggedness  {2\bodyfontsize}
\def\middleraggedness {6\bodyfontsize}

And setting the raggedness involves some safeguards for unwanted side
effects. Changing the 2 into 4 gives a slightly different typeset
paragraph. 

Some day I will implement a mechanism for paragraph break and page break
strategies, but it's not that easy to find the balance between user
friendliness and low level tex programming. The current values are based
on years of testing and have been unchanged for quite some years. In
this respect the change in \raggedright is unique. For thos who want to
retain the older settings, adding the old definition to the local
cont-sys.tex file will do so. Unless Taco strongly objects, from now on
the new definition will apply, 

Hans

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Re: raggedright

[Taco Hoekwater]

>>>>> "HH" == Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

 HH> I'm not sure yet about adapting the other ones, but those seem
 HH> ok.

I thought so too. (The definition of \raggedright gave full last
paragraph lines because \parfillskip == 0pt. The result was not bad
when the paragraph text is large, but very ugly for small paragraphs).

Taco