Re: experimenting metafun: problems with funnyframe

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 03:02 AM 12/19/00 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have just tried to gain a deeper insight into document preparation with 
>context because in january I want to make a journal with it.
>
>So I work through the metafun manual (27.10.2000) and have some question 
>for the FunnyFrames example (4.6 Enhancing the layout):
>
>1. What is the reason, the framed text does not span the whole line?  In 
>core-rul I found that the width is derived from textwidth advanced 
>-2\@@localoffset.  But where is this offset defined?

The width can be set with [width=] and by default is .75\hsize. 

That's the offset between the text and the frame, some 1em by default

>2. The lower space between text and frame is greater than the upper one.  
>(this is the case in the manual, too)  Should I use \startlinecorrection? 
>And how?  (just inside StartFrame, I cannot see a difference)

probably a forced depth so that side by side frames look ok, in this
particular case, there should be a it more space at the top, mabye
[top=\vskip\dp\strutbox] will help 

>3. There are some funny hyphenations inside the frame (but they are right!) 
>like "knowl-edge" ...  Anyway before I know that this is right, I looked 
>into the .log from making the format (to find out wether the right 
>hyphenation patterns are there).  And I found a great load of
>
>language       : patterns en for en loaded (n=3)
>(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ushyph1.tex)
>language       : no hyphenations en for en (n=3)
>language       : patterns uk for uk loaded (n=4)
>(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ukhyphen.tex)
>language       : no hyphenations uk for uk (n=4)
>language       : patterns de for de loaded (n=5)
>
>are this real problems?

Not at all. hyphenations are exceptions, and there seem to be none [at
least none defined in lang-??.hyp; the patterns are loaded all right. 

>4. How comes I cannot copy the _formatted_ sources from the pdf? Neither 
>interactive nor print version worked.  I know (but not for sure) I have 
>copied code with linebreaks from another pdf but don't know what file this 
>was.

you can try pdftotext 

Hans
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