From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29702 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 17:06:58 +0200 Message-ID: <44C78512.7090401@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00607250721o32cc0898nef7e593f4555cc94@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00607260023t5e8e51a6p5b9a444f774884d4@mail.gmail.com> <44C72826.6010208@wxs.nl> 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 1153926471 20111 80.91.229.2 (26 Jul 2006 15:07:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:07:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jul 26 17:07:46 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 1G5kyg-0006Ak-D4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E551FD5C; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:13 +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 31303-07; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E2A1FD24; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A311FD24 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:04 +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 31090-04 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:00 +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 158D81FD19 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:07:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 28949 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:06:59 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 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:29702 Archived-At: Jano Kula wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > > >> anyhow, underbar is from the typewriter time and just a poor mans emphasis thing >> >> > > Not always. A year ago a graphic designer used it a quiet creative way > in the book of interviews. All the questions or persons were underlined, > often hyphenated. It was an experiment and it worked. By the way, some > of the caption and figure alingment Mojca asked for was used there also. > I've put few sample pages here (done in LaTeX): > > http://web.iol.cz/kula/sample.pdf (1,5MB). > > And in Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography (2000) underlined text > are used everywhere. To much to my taste. > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/390704486X?v=glance > > So not for emphasis but as a graphic element it is -- and will be -- used. > if one works on a grid, one can use the textbackground mechanism to provide underlined text honoring hyphenation (there is probably an example of that somewhere) maybe there's also some pdf primitive, in which case one can use the context feature mechanism 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------