Re: Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>]

Am 12.04.2013 um 11:02 schrieb "H. Özoguz" <h.oezoguz@mmnetz.de>:

> Hi (sorry for many questions today :)),
> 
> with German you often have the problem, that words are long (most often much longer than english words). So ConTeXt have to break them. But there is a typographical rule: "Do not break words at the end of lines in more than three consecutive lines."
> 
> So four (or more) breaks each ofter another (line), is forbidden and considered as ugly! By default, ConTeXt does this in many cases, specially with DIN A5 and long words. And I have to manually fix this in every case, that is normal and ok.
> Is there a way to highlight these attempts of more than three consecutive breaks in one paragraph? Would be easier to find, and to not-oversee.
> 
> Future suggestion: Perfectly ConTeXt would try to avoid those breaks, but I suspect that would end in ungly kerning and unnormal gaps between words, correct?

You can add \setupalign[stretch] to your document which increases the space between words, it is only a small value and helps in some cases.

Wolfgang
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