Re: Wrong text alignment within Context.

["Patrick Gundlach" <patrick@gundla.ch>]

Hi Dirar and others,

the sample pdf has the following problem:

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             l’expression
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th word(s) "l'expression" stick into the right margin. This is (I
guess) due to the following facts:

1) TeX will use the right margin for words if the other solution for a
   line breaking problem would be to stretch the innerword spacing.
   TeX has complicated rules for determining the "badness" of a
   solution, the badness of stretching in your case is obviously
   higher then the badness of sticking into the margin. You have to
   play with TeX's parameters to decrease the badness of interword
   spacing (but see also 2)). In your case you set \tolerance to 200,
   which is very intolerant :-) So, for an example, say \tolerance
   8000 (or use the ConTeXt way like \setuptolerance[verytolerant] --
   never do this in a real world text!). Then your text should
   look ugly again, but in another way. There are quite few parameters
   for interfering TeXs paragraph builder.

2) TeX should hyphenate the word "expression" in some way, but doesn't
   do it. I am not sure where the allowed breakpoints are, but you
   might want to tell TeX. Perhaps "expression" can be hyphenated but
   "l'expression" not. But I don't know what to do here, other french
   writers should help you with that problem. Use \showhypens{....} to
   find out about the hypenation places.

There is no magic to your problem :-)

Patrick
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