Hello Patrick,

thank you very much!
Hopely I understand right, that the command

\setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch]
( or \setuptolerance[horizontal,verytolerant,stretch] )

will result to
\tolerance 4500\emergencystretch\bodyfontsize

:-)

Richard



Patrick Gundlach wrote:

>Hello Richard,
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>>could somebody explain me the usage of the \setuptolerance command and
>>its particular parameters?
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>I have put an explanation on texshow-web:
>http://texshow.contextgarden.net
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>>The main ConTeXt manual (cont-eni.pdf, pages 87-88) only mentions that
>>it is used [horizontal,verystrict] and [vertical,strict] by
>>default... 
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>I wonder what the vertical form is for (columns?).
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>>On contextgarden.net I've found one example using the following form:
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>>\setuptolerance		[{horizontal, verytolerant},{vertical, verystrict}]
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>This looks incorrect to me. See my comment on texshow-web.
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>Patrick
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