From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29684 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: underbar and hyphenation Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:30:30 +0200 Message-ID: <44C72826.6010208@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00607250721o32cc0898nef7e593f4555cc94@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00607260023t5e8e51a6p5b9a444f774884d4@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153902945 1136 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2006 08:35:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 26 10:35:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G5erY-0000fh-19 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:35:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D771FE5D; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:35:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16593-05-2; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:35:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4FFE1FE49; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:35:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61DE1FE49 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:35:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16593-05 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:35:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id F33AC1FE42 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:30:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 28796 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:30:30 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00607260023t5e8e51a6p5b9a444f774884d4@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:29684 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 7/26/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> is there any way to make hyphenation work when using \underbar? >>> >> Perhaps you can try some of the techniques in Chapter 10 of Metafun >> manual. There is no mention of hypenation, but looking at Fig 10.3 it >> seems that hypenation is taken care of. Working with a rectangular >> region should be easier, but then one needs to take care of >> pagebreaks..... >> > > Actually, if I'm thinking about extending \underbar to handle such > situations, then I'm ready to put some effort into fixing it (since it > might be useful in the future as well). But considering my document: > using metapost is too much overhead to underline just a couple of > sentences. (To be honest: now I switched to bold instead since I'm > running out of time anyway.) > rather tricky i.e. kind of impossible to do \underbars (plural) at least split at word boundaries anyhow, underbar is from the typewriter time and just a poor mans emphasis thing Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------