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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: alignment parameters
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 05:57:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200120055714.9cab890f3548b540ca7df26d@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BE7F3257-12ED-4AE9-AFF1-0B3E2591DFFD@fiee.net>

On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:44:02 +0100
Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:

> 
> > Am 2020-01-19 um 21:01 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>:
> >>> 
> >>>> Hi, for my section titles I’m looking for the alignment parameters that give me:
> >>>> - left aligned
> >>>> - no hyphenation (or only where I set breakpoints manually)
> >>>> - no overfull hboxes
> >>>> 
> >>>> At the moment I have
> >>>> align={flushleft,extremestretch,nothyphenated}
> >>>> (would use also hz and hanging, if they don’t interfere),
> >>>> but in a few cases I still get section titles that are much wider than the text column.
> >>> 
> >>> align={flushleft,broad,nothyphenated}
> >> 
> >> Thank you, but unfortunately it makes no difference.
> > 
> > You have to provide a minimal example.
> 
> I know. My project setup is just so extensive, and there are several problems that I'm trying to isolate since days…
> I was hoping for an easy solution in this case.
> 
> I already learned that \setuplayout[grid=strut] makes more problems than it solves while fontfeature dimensions=strut is good;I should avoid frames in section titles (not necessarily, but it’s more controllable without); how to get more control over makeups and that columnsets are somewhat fastidious, esp. with floats…

Use \setuplayout[grid=yes] when "grid=strut" doesn't work.

> Still open: this one, different behaviour of \blank in before vs. command, chapters always starting on left pages despite page=no (a side effect of the columnset, I guess), and floats, floats, floats.
> 
> But here we are:
> 
> 
> \setuppapersize[A6]
> \showframe[text]
> \setupalign[flushleft,broad,nothyphenated]
> \define[2]\MySection{\vbox{#2}}

Put the alignment command in the box.

\define[2]\MySection
  {\vbox{\setupalign[flushleft,broad,nothyphenated]#2}}

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20  4:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-19 12:59 Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-01-19 19:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-01-19 19:56   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-01-19 20:01     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2020-01-19 21:44       ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-01-20  4:57         ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2020-01-20  6:05           ` Henning Hraban Ramm

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