From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3683 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beta and hanging question Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 01:26:14 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001228012614.00925e10@pop.wxs.nl> References: <3.0.6.32.20001227100505.0153fe20@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394407 19246 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context Original-To: "George N. White III" , thanh@denicser.let.uu.nl In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3683 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3683 At 04:40 PM 12/27/00 -0400, George N. White III wrote: >On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> At 08:00 PM 12/25/00 +0100, Frans Goddijn wrote: >> >Hello all, >> > >> >What better use for a fine xmas day than try something new in ConTeXt... >> >;=}} >> > [...] >> >> >\steluitlijnenin[hangend] >> > >> >I get no error messages but the resulting text shows no protrusions at >> >all... >> > >> >Anyone any idea what I do wrong? >> >> You have to set up fonts to protrude [not that complicated, see MAPS >> article] which comes down to assigning a handler to a font [see >> enco-pro.tex]. >> >> So, finally you get something like this [you can set protruding per font >> and change the amounts per font shape etc] >> [...] > >Hmmm, my experiments ended with too much of an effect, either using >essentially the same as the example given in Hans' response, and then a >simpler example with plain tex. Whenever a line ends in a protruding >character (e.g., hyphen or punctuation) the character preceeding the >line-ending glyph is also set in the margin: > > | | > |We thrive .. because| > |of our ........ to se- > | | > >There was no change using a newer pdftex (on SGI irix 6.5, build with gcc >2.95.2) There has been a small change [not yet in the tex files] in the metrics [em instead of fake design size] that the pdftex binary (version h) uses but this can be no reason for the e sticking into the margin. So, this is something for Thanh. I'll send you my output in a separate mail. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------