From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: RE: suppressing hyphenation
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:11:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030116171042.022de280@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MFEFJNAPONLOLJPIHFBIGEEHDMAA.dh@capdm.com>
At 03:52 PM 1/16/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>John Culleton wrote:
> > Has anyone tried the plain TeX solution:
> >
> > \def\raggedright{\rightskip=0pt plus 2em
> > \spaceskip=.3333em \xspaceskip=.5em\relax}
> >
> > ??
>
>I doubt it, because (a) the plain method of adding 2 ems worth of shrinkable
>space fails in a lot of circumstances, and given that ConTeXt has some
>complexity behind it you can never be sure exactly what circumstance you're
>in, and (b) the above produces left-aligned, not right-aligned text.
>
>:)
therefore ... the context low level \raggedright is indeed more complex,
and takes care of things like narrow typesetting as well,
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-16 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-15 2:33 Adam Lindsay
2003-01-15 8:33 ` Hans Hagen
2003-01-15 10:49 ` Adam Lindsay
2003-01-15 11:39 ` Hans Hagen
2003-01-16 11:18 ` Adam Lindsay
2003-01-16 11:37 ` Hans Hagen
2003-01-16 13:36 ` Adam Lindsay
2003-01-16 13:51 ` Hans Hagen
2003-01-16 10:33 ` John Culleton
2003-01-16 15:52 ` Duncan Hothersall
2003-01-16 16:11 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2003-01-16 16:04 ` Hans Hagen
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