Re: line breaking hints?

["luigi scarso" <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

On Nov 26, 2007 10:08 PM, Santy, Michael <Michael.Santy@dynetics.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
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>  I'm looking for a way to give ConTeXt's line breaking algorithm a hint on
> where it is allowed to break a line.  For example, I want ConTeXt to break
> lines, if necessary, when it encounters '//' in a string.  I don't want to
> force a line break there, but if context needs to break the line, I want it
> to be after a "//".
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>  A contrived example of some input text is:
>  THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG//NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD
> MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY.
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>  When this text is rendered by ConTeXt, and it is too big to fit on a single
> line, I would like it to break like this:
>  THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG//
>  NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN TO COME TO THE AID OF THEIR COUNTRY.
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>  I can preprocess the source to change spaces into non-breaking spaces and
> can replace '//' with anything else that I need to, but don't know how to
> suggest where to break the line.  Also note that I do not want any words to
> be hyphenated nor broken on hyphens.
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maybe this can give you more ideas
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/autosize
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