From: "Hans Åberg" <haberg-1@telia.com>
To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 14:13:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B3047974-EBF6-4C66-B10F-258D52B01ECA@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160509101550.GI3262698@phare.normalesup.org>
> On 9 May 2016, at 12:15, Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org> wrote:
>
>> PS: I guess that ConTeXt still lacks support for fillers and
>>
>> \startalign[snakes]
>> ...
>> \stopalign
>
> The snakes idea is actually pretty close to the practice of Kashida in
> Arabic typography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashida),
It has been discussed on the Unicode list, also mentioning traditional Tibetan justification than kashida.
http://unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2016-May/003576.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-09 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 7:41 Mojca Miklavec
2016-05-09 8:28 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-09 8:42 ` Mojca Miklavec
2016-05-09 8:51 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-09 15:15 ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-05-09 15:32 ` Mohammad Hossein Bateni
2016-05-09 8:53 ` luigi scarso
2016-05-09 9:12 ` Taco Hoekwater
2016-05-09 9:33 ` luigi scarso
2016-05-09 10:02 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-09 9:23 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2016-05-09 9:31 ` luigi scarso
2016-05-09 10:15 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2016-05-09 12:13 ` Hans Åberg [this message]
2016-05-09 10:35 ` Ulrike Fischer
2016-05-09 10:52 ` Mojca Miklavec
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