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From: Tommaso Gordini via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Tommaso Gordini <illinguista1972@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Microtipography
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 17:06:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+b=C5W_4o7R65s1x=ssJwp_PtHo=x=pzsuUGpLYKstBNX8+ug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac95e1ff2d60925c22bf7e80777fc96c63a453d4.camel@henrimenke.de>


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Thank you, Henri!

Tommaso

Il mer 25 mag 2022, 16:59 Henri Menke via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
ha scritto:

> On Wed, 2022-05-25 at 15:51 +0200, Tommaso Gordini via ntg-context
> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > here and there on the Net there are slightly different ways to
> > activate the
> > microtypography functionality in a ConTeXt document.
> >
> >  My question is: what is the most correct and clean way to do it?
>
> I do not claim that this is the cleanest way. Probably it's better to
> define a separate font feature for microtypography rather than
> overwriting the default set, but this definitely works:
>
>    \definefontfeature[default][default]
>      [protrusion=quality,
>       expansion=quality]
>
>    \setupbodyfont[modern] % or whatever
>
>    \setupalign[hz,hanging]
>
> Unfortunately the global alignment settings do not propagate into
> certain structures. For example itemizations, captions, and
> bibliographies just reset it and need special treatment:
>
>    \setupitemize[each][align={hz,hanging}]
>    \setupbtxlist[align={hz,hanging,tolerant}]
>    \setupcaption[figure][align={justified,hz,hanging}]
>
> I think captions are not justified by default, so that might or might
> not matter to you. Bibliographies are usually full or names and
> academic words that do not hyphenate well, so adding tolerant relaxes
> that a little bit.
>
> Cheers, Henri
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Tommaso
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-25 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-25 13:51 Microtipography Tommaso Gordini via ntg-context
2022-05-25 14:52 ` Microtipography Henri Menke via ntg-context
2022-05-25 15:06   ` Tommaso Gordini via ntg-context [this message]
2022-05-25 20:47     ` Microtipography Denis Maier via ntg-context

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