[NTG-context] ConTeXt LMTX 2024, \setupalign: Is the "Nicer justification and microtypography" list of options listed in ConTeXt Garden now obselete?

[NTG-context] ConTeXt LMTX 2024, \setupalign: Is the "Nicer justification and microtypography" list of options listed in ConTeXt Garden now obselete?

[Felix]

When I try to use a combination (example = 
\setupalign[normal,extremestretch,verytolerant,hangingboth,fullhz,hyphenated,]
)

and just normal

I seem to be getting the same result when I try to load in a big paragraph. However, there is an obvious difference between me entering (just) flushleft, normal, flushright. 

Have those options become obsolete? how am I supposed to know?

I use the latest version of LMTX
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[NTG-context] Re: ConTeXt LMTX 2024, \setupalign: Is the "Nicer justification and microtypography" list of options listed in ConTeXt Garden now obselete?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Felix schrieb am 14.09.2024 um 06:13:
> When I try to use a combination (example =
> \setupalign[normal,extremestretch,verytolerant,hangingboth,fullhz,hyphenated,]
> )
>
> and just normal
>
> I seem to be getting the same result when I try to load in a big paragraph. However, there is an obvious difference between me entering (just) flushleft, normal, flushright.
>
> Have those options become obsolete? how am I supposed to know?

Whether there is a difference or not depends on your text, when you have 
a wide
text block and short words TeX can produce good results without the need for
additional parameters but when you have a narrow text blocks (e.g. for 
text in
columns) or long words you need additional settings.

The example below shows how different options can result in different 
line breaks
but not all sample text produce the same effect, sometimes you get the 
same result
with and without verytolerant etc.

Don't forget to enable expansion and protrusion before you use the 
hanging and hz
options because they need these font features.

%%%% begin example
\definefontfeature [default] [default] 
[expansion=quality,protrusion=quality]

\setuppapersize [A5]

\defineframed
   [Example]
   [width=max,
    offset=none,
    framecolor=lightgray]

\starttext

\startprocesscommalist[normal,{normal,verytolerant},{normal,stretch},{normal,hanging},{normal,hz}]
   \starttitle[title=\currentcommalistitem]
     \startframed[Example][align=\currentcommalistitem]
     \samplefile{tufte}
     \stopframed
   \stoptitle
\stopprocesscommalist

\stoptext
%%%% end example

Wolfgang

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