From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Automatic negative tracking to prevent slight overfull hbox's
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:57:30 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1601161256261.40792@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2902051452726453@web13o.yandex.ru>
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Alexander Dyomin wrote:
> Dear list,
> when I stumble upon a slightly overhanging line (where it's not allowed to hyphenate the hanging word and putting it on next line leaves huge whitespaces), decreasing letterspacing in that line seems like a good idea, and I manually insert \kerncharacters commands to do the trick. Here's a MWE for the purpose of demonstration:
>
> % ConTeXt code
> \setuppapersize[A5]
> \setupbackgrounds[text] [rightframe=on,framecolor=red,rulethickness=0.1pt] %right margin line
>
> \setupalign[hz,hanging] % microtypography enabled
> \definefontfeature[default][default][protrusion=quality,expansion=quality]
>
> \definetypeface[mainface][rm][specserif][Linux Libertine O] [default]
> \setupbodyfont[mainface,14pt]
>
> \mainlanguage[russian]
> \setupindenting[yes,medium,first]
>
> \starttext
>
> {\kerncharacters[-0.018] Здесь будет длинный-предлинный текст, \mbox{в~коем}} никак нельзя перенести строку.
> Запрещено { \kerncharacters[-0.008] разрывать телефонные номера, например, \mbox{(000)1234-5678}}, многозначные числа и дефисные написания.
> \stoptext
>
>
> Is the a way for automating such negative tracking?
I seem to remember seeing a demo (either by Hans or Idris) for Arabic
typesetting where some optimizations were performed after the linebreaks.
I wonder if similar approach could be used here.
Aditya
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2016-01-13 23:07 Alexander Dyomin
2016-01-16 17:57 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2016-01-17 18:27 ` Hans Hagen
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