Re: "Trial typesetting" in ConTeXt / lua ?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 11/17/2015 9:15 AM, josephcanedo@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if someone could have some hints on this question,
> anyway, I found the function mknodes() from luaTeX wiki and
> nodes.handlers.characters(head) function in ConTeXt (as it seems that
> node.ligaturing(head) and node.kerning(head) do not seem to do anything).
>
> It seems to work fine (ligatures and font features) expect the kerning.
> Does someone know how to perform the kerning as well ?

I'm not sure if i understand your issue.

traditional ligaturing and kerning is applied when a node list has fonts 
using basemode

\starttext

\startluacode

     local hbox = nodes.typesetters.hpack("Hello World!")

     context("%p",hbox.width)

     nodes.flush_list(hbox)

\stopluacode

\stoptext


> Best regards
>
> Joseph Canedo
>
> *From:* josephcanedo@gmail.com <mailto:josephcanedo@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* ‎Saturday‎, ‎November‎ ‎14‎, ‎2015 ‎11‎:‎16‎ ‎AM
> *To:* ntg-context@ntg.nl <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>
>
> Dear all,
>
> Is it possible in ConTeXt within lua code to do “trial typesetting” (not
> sure that’s best name for what I would like to achieve) ? By this I mean
> store some input (with text and macros) in some buffer and do what
> ConTeXt does normally (parsing, create nodes …) but instead of shipping
> the nodes to line breaking algorithm and to the page output, only
> retrieve the nodes and after discard them. This is to get an estimate of
> the total text width within a paragraph (to calculate some shape on the
> paragraph).

you can assemble a list of characters and then do an hpack on them

> I browsed the lua code from http://source.contextgarden.net/
> <http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/node-ref.lua?search=nodecodes> but
> I do not dare to use too low level lua functionality.
>
> Many thanks for any hint (even a pointer to lua function).
>
> Best regards
>
> Joseph Canedo
>
>
>
>
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