[NTG-context] Re: breakpoints in verbatim text

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 8/18/2023 1:02 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Alex Leray schrieb am 18.08.2023 um 12:19:
>> Hello Wolfgang,
>>
>> Le 17/08/23 à 18:56, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit :
>>> Is it correct all your listing are HTML code and you need line breaks 
>>> for the entries of the href attributes?
>>
>> The content is from a dutch net-artist artist from the early days of 
>> the public web, and is often (volontary) mixing different natural nd 
>> machine langages. Not all snippets are HTML, but most of them are some 
>> sort of HTML pidgin.
> 
> 
> I see, the typing environment is in this case the safest option to 
> ensure special characters like % remain i the output.
> 
> For simple text without special characters you could have switched to 
> the lines environment and use a monospaced but
> I wouldn't trust it here (even when you enable \asciimode).
> 
> 
>>> Syntax highlighting of the code listing isn't needed in your case.
>>
>> No, I don't need syntax highlighting
>>
>> My problem is solved using manual zero width spaces at the moment but 
>> I'd be interested to find a more structural solution.
>>
>> Checking at the Context source code I would have thought that 
>> breakpoints were possible withing typing env. See
>>
>> https://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/mkiv/buff-ver.mkiv?search=typing#l51
>>
>> It would be interesting to document on the wiki that behavior, which I 
>> can do later when my understanding is better.
> 
> The typing environment disables the breakpoint (and a few other) 
> mechanism because they can lead to undesired
> side effects but Hans suggestion to provide a hook which can be used to 
> re-enable the feature, e.g.
> 
>      \startsetups [typing:mine]
>          \setbreakpoints[compound]
>      \stopsetups
> 
>      \setuptyping [CUSTOM] [setups=typing:mine]
> 
> The only flaw I can see in the suggestion is the use of the 
> \everyinitializeverbatim register because it is used for
> inline and display verbatim. A better place to add the option is 
> \buff_verbatim_initialize_typing_two for \starttyping
> and \buff_verbatim_initialize_type_two for \type.

ok

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