Re: Protrusion cancellation by index term

["Jan Tosovsky" <j.tosovsky@email.cz>]

On 2016-03-22 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 3/21/2016 10:59 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > On 2014-02-23 Hans Hagen wrote:
> >> On 2/22/2014 2:38 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >>> On 2014-02-22 Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> when a punctuated phrase appears at the beginning of the line,
> >>>> it is not protruded correctly when preceded by an index term.
> >>>>
> >>>> ... \index{foo}>Bar< ...
> >>>>
> >>>> A minimal example is available at
> >>>> http://drifted.in/other/sample.tex
> >>>>
> >>> It is more serious issue than expected. Consider next two
> >>> variants:
> >>>
> >>> (1) sentence, \index{primary}>Primary<
> >>> (2) sentence,\index{primary} >Primary<
> >>>
> >>> When the line is broken after a comma:
> >>> ad 1) starting guillemet is not protruded
> >>> ad 2) ending comma is not protruded
> >>>
> >>> When \index is surrounded by spaces from both sides, the space 
> >>> is rendered at the beginning of the next line (resulting in
> >>> 'indenting').
> >>>
> >>> I'd be grateful for ignoring any non document content preceding
> >>> punctuation to avoid its influence on protrusion.
> >>
> >> well, think of it like this:
> >>
> >> [something]<text>[something else]
> >>
> >> with [something] being bound to < ... so that is then the 
> >> boundary of the word, not < ... i might know a solution (but such 
> >> -major- changes have to fit into my schedule)
> >
> > are there any improvements here with revamped token processing
> > implemented in recent versions?
> 
> it's not that trivial
> 
> ... for the index we can cheat a bit but then i also need to check lots
> of other cases for possible interference
> 

Can you roughly estimate when this could be further investigated?
Between 0.90-0.95, later or after 1.0? 

I hope there will be some way to fix it in ConTeXt one day. 

Jan

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