Re: Adjusting column width dynamically to get rid of orphans and widows

[Thomas Widmann <thomas@complexli.com>]

On 28 June 2017 at 12:04, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 6/28/2017 11:16 AM, Thomas Widmann wrote:
>>
>> If the answer is 'no', that's OK. I reckon it might be, given that TeX
>> builds the paragraphs first and then split them to create pages, and I
>> basically want the page builder to be able to rebuild certain
>> paragraphs to make them fit, which goes against TeX's basic design.
>>
>> However, if were is somehow possible with LuaTeX, it would open up a
>> lot of possibilities, and not just for dictionary typesetting.
>
> one can of course make it work somehow, but it's not something standard and
> takes some coding and testing ... a rather specialized sub mechanism
>
> (basically most of what one wants can be done, but that doesn't mean that
> all gets implemented; normally i only do such more complex things if i need
> it in a project, unless it is some rainy day fun project)

Thanks, Hans!  I never expected it to work out of the box, and I'm
quite happy to do a lot of programming to make it work.

What I'd really like to know is whether the relevant parts of TeX have
been Luafied already (in which case I might do it soon), or whether
doing this would require making changes to LuaTeX itself (in which I
might not want to touch this yet)…

Thomas
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