Re: beta and hanging question

["George N. White III" <whiteg@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 08:00 PM 12/25/00 +0100, Frans Goddijn wrote:
> >Hello all,
> >
> >What better use for a fine xmas day than try something new in ConTeXt...
> >;=}}
> > [...]
>
> >\steluitlijnenin[hangend]
> >
> >I get no error messages but the resulting text shows no protrusions at
> >all...
> >
> >Anyone any idea what I do wrong?
>
> You have to set up fonts to protrude [not that complicated, see MAPS
> article] which comes down to assigning a handler to a font [see
> enco-pro.tex].
>
> So, finally you get something like this [you can set protruding per font
> and change the amounts per font shape etc]
>  [...]

Hmmm, my experiments ended with too much of an effect, either using
essentially the same as the example given in Hans' response, and then a
simpler example with plain tex.  Whenever a line ends in a protruding
character (e.g., hyphen or punctuation) the character preceeding the
line-ending glyph is also set in the margin:

  |                    |
  |We thrive .. because|
  |of our ........ to se-
  |                    |

There was no change using a newer pdftex (on SGI irix 6.5, build with gcc
2.95.2)

from:

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-pretest-20001004-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
(format=cont-en 2000.12.11)  27 DEC 2000 11:59

to:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-pretest-20001219 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
(format=pdftex 2000.12.27)  27 DEC 2000 15:41

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