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From: Mohammad Hossein Bateni <bateni@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: [OT] Full-width justification (xkcd)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 11:32:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMHZ1dYGRFA=iPgtoxK2pSXuDdvLM0-v3BdjnCyPzqhGDCtzEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160509091508.080cda45@cea.fr>


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I once converted part of the xepersian package dealing with Kashida to
ConTeXt (on LuaTeX).  Being a newcomer, the result wasn't that great,
though it did work for many situations.  In a couple of weeks, I will have
time to clean it up a bit and share with anyone who's interested.

—MHB

On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 May 2016 10:51:23 +0200
> Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> > > Wasn't in obvious that I was joking?
> > > (Even though deep down I feared someone would reply with "here it
> > > is".)
> >
> > well, its more like challenging us (in fact i remember messing a bit
> > with this fill-to-end-of-line-with-rules stuff that you see in ugly
> > official documents but then decided that lawyers should use
> > justification instead)
>
> It would be a better exercise to compose one's text in verse using
> words that fill all lines nicely eliminating entirely the need for
> justification. Maybe this should be an exercise for the upcoming
> Context meeting?
>
> My entry will consist entirely of four-letter words...
>
> Alan
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-09 15:32 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 [this message]
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
2016-05-09 10:35 ` Ulrike Fischer
2016-05-09 10:52   ` Mojca Miklavec

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