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From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: bug with hz in LMTX?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:47:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a9339eb-214e-976c-69e1-573fcd9696da@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8786f4ba-fa79-00cc-b45a-e7d629350605@xs4all.nl>

On 10/13/20 1:36 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 10/12/2020 4:59 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> [...]
>> On page 36 (https://pdf.ousia.tk/wrong-font-expansion.pdf#page=36),
>> lines 4, 11 and 20 are wrong.
>>
>> Current LMTX (LuaTeX 2.07 20200920 + ConTeXt MkIV 2020.09.20 23:02) has
>> the issue, while MkIV (LuaTeX 1.11 7226 + ConTeXt MkIV 2020.01.30 14:13)
>> has no problem with that.
>>
>> I think this might be a bug. Could you confirm the issue?
> I need to keep count of how frequently i suggest typo also
>
>   \setupalign[verytolerant,stretch]
>
> when one uses hz and/or protrusion. I don't know why folks expect
> expansion and protrusion to give better (or intended) output when the
> other constraints are such that tex either not even ends up in the phase
> where expansion is applied, or when fitting the constraints is only
> possible with excessive and visible expansion. When expansion is max or
> min and there is not enough spacing to stretch and shrink the results
> will not get better. Read: expansion is a last resort in getting things
> right. Also, protrusion actually add to the constraints so that is never
> a way to get a better fit.

Many thanks for your reply, Hans.

If both expansion and protrusion add problems to line breaking, I’m
disabling both features in my documents.

Many thanks for your help,

Pablo
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-12 14:59 Pablo Rodriguez
2020-10-13 11:36 ` Hans Hagen
2020-10-13 14:47   ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2020-10-13 15:15     ` Hans Hagen

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