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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Eliminating orpans in the Index
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:12:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52966E62.8040209@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <007301ceeaeb$cd9dfb60$68d9f220$@tosovsky@email.cz>

On 11/26/2013 10:09 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> On 2013-11-23 Jan Tosovsky wrote:
>>
>> in my two-column index there are several cases when the last
>> entry in the given letter group overflows to the next column/page.
>> In the extreme case it is just the last page reference.
>> ...
>> Additionaly, columns are not balanced properly in all cases. When the
>> first is longer, it is not a big problem. But the opposite case
>> looks weird.
>
> As the registers are rendered programatically, I cannot intervene into this
> process. But can I influence it e.g. using 'processors' applied to
> problematic index entries?
>
> Processors can be used for setting the font-weight or color of particular
> entry. Can the same method used for manual setting of
> 'keep-with-previous/next' ?

I can think of a hack but it will always be for last minute work.

Hans


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <002d01cee85f$27e04770$77a0d650$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-11-26 21:09 ` Jan Tosovsky
     [not found] ` <007301ceeaeb$cd9dfb60$68d9f220$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2013-11-27 22:12   ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-11-29 22:15     ` Jan Tosovsky

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