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From: Cedric Tissieres <cedric.tissieres@objectif-securite.ch>
To: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>,
	mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Variable space with hanging description
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 05:32:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8ec60c4-1dc8-144d-c641-1bc09b89d462@objectif-securite.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94c14d37-f1ae-8a6c-f728-35af418ce06a@gmail.com>

Thanks Wolfgang, it works perfectly.

On 4/16/19 11:31 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Cedric Tissieres schrieb am 16.04.2019 um 06:16:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I recently switched to mkiv and experienced some problems with
>> descriptions when set with alternative=hanging. The horizontal space
>> between the description title and the rest of the text varies a lot and
>> looks ugly. When the same code is compiled with mkii, this space is
>> almost constant (replace alternative=hanging by location=hanging in
>> mkii).
> 
> The different distances after each title comes from the fact that MkIV
> adds shrink and stretch values to the space but you can disable these
> values with the shrink and stretch keys.
> 
> \setupdescription [...] [shrink=0,stretch=0]
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-16  4:16 Cedric Tissieres
2019-04-16 21:31 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2019-04-17  3:32   ` Cedric Tissieres [this message]

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