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On Saturday 22 June 2002 12:20 am, Idris S Hamid wrote:
> using pdfetex mode I'm trying to get hanging punctuation to no avail.
>
> \startalignment[hanging]
> %\usetypescript [serif,sans,mono] [hanging] [pure] \setupalign[hanging]
>
> ``What is hanging punctuation?''
>
> \stopalignment
>
> What's the trick to get this working?
>
> Best wishes
> Idris
As I understand it hanging punctuation allows punctuation marks,
such as hyphens, commas etc. to protrude into the right margin a bit. 
In theory this is optically superior to lining them up with the alpha glyphs.

How one makes it work I have no idea.  I suspect that my problem is that
I short-circuited the complex font scheme of Context with a simple call like:

\definebodyfont[10pt,12pt,14pt,16pt][rm][tf=pncr8r sa 1, bf=pncb8r sa 1, 
it=pncri8r sa 1, sl=pncro8r sa 1, bs=pncbo8r sa 1, bi=pncbi8r sa 1]

But I can't be sure. 

John Culleton

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