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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Re: disable expansion for one single component
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:44:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AFFC5E.3060001@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AFF796.9060302@uni-bonn.de>

On 11/23/2012 11:24 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On 10/02/2012 03:31 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> >  Hi all,
>>> >
>>> >  for a book I'm typesetting, I use adobe minion and have enabled
>>> protrusion=pure,expansion=quality in the typescript and then
>>> >
>>> >  \setupalign[hanging,hz]
>>> >
>>> >  in the main environment. Now it turns out that in one of the
>>> components/chapters of the book, this messes up the spacing of some
>>> characters. Is there a way to disable expansion (but not of course
>>> protrusion) for one single chapter?
>> Put \setupalign[nohz] before and \setupalign[hz] after your chapter.
>>
>> Wolfgang
>
> Hi all, Wolfgang,
>
> coming back to a pretty old question because it doesn't appear to work.
> For the book I'm currently typesetting, I had to disable expansion for
> the entire document because it messed up spacing with Greek letters and
> certain accents. Now the question is the other way round: can I enable
> expansion only for certain passages? I'm in the final revision, and
> expansion would help me take care of a few overfull hboxes. But while
> setting \setupalign[hanging,hz] for the entire document does take care
> of those, doing something like
>
> \start
> \setupalign[hanging,hz]
> blablabla
> \stop
>
> doesn't have any effect. Is this possible at all, or am I barking up the
> wrong tree?

You need to load a font with the expension feature enabled. After that 
you can enable/disable it using setupalign.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-23 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02 13:24 Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-10-02 13:31 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-10-02 13:42   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-11-23 22:24   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-11-23 22:44     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-11-24 11:45       ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2012-11-24 16:53     ` Wolfgang Schuster

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