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From: Willi Egger <context@boede.nl>
To: NTG-Context ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Typesetting hebrew in a table...
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:20:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1BDEC6-63E7-4857-A9B5-67EBBBCADD77@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B2F81928-09E2-45F5-B4E0-E299D536DFAB@elvenkind.com>

Hello Taco,

thank you so much. - Indeed this looks good! The option with ‘verytolerant,stretch’ works but does not look that nice, some words are really far from each other…
So the way to go is “{r2l,right}”

Thanks!

Willi

> On 12 Aug 2019, at 15:36, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 12 Aug 2019, at 15:08, Willi Egger <context@boede.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> my brother is studying Ifrith and wants to have a dictionary. The idea is to typeset left German and right Ifrith in a /bTABLE…\eTABLE environment.
>> 
>> When trying to typeset the Ifrith text is not broken into lines correctly i.e. it is leaping into the cell reserved for the German text. — How to correct this behaviour?
> 
> Either use:
> 
> \setupTABLE[column][2][align={r2l,right},width=42mm]
> 
> or:
> 
> \setupTABLE[column][2][align={r2l,verytolerant,stretch},width=42mm]
> 
> since a bare ‘r2l’ is like “normal” except for the writing direction. 
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> Taco
> 
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      reply	other threads:[~2019-08-12 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-12 13:08 Willi Egger
2019-08-12 13:36 ` Taco Hoekwater
2019-08-12 20:20   ` Willi Egger [this message]

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