Am 30.09.24 um 20:14 schrieb Hans Hagen:
On 9/30/2024 6:22 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Hi,
since the latest update, I have differences in line/paragraph/page
breaking. I should have expected that vz and granular aren’t stable
yet, but maybe it’s a problem in my setup and not even related to that
update.
* widow and orphan penalties seem to work different, preferring empty
lines over single lines.
* looseness doesn’t seem to work any more.
Were there changes?
Not intentionally. We're bringing widow and club penalties stepwise
under \setupalign control so maybe something was forgotten. For
instance, \widowpenalty and \widowpenalties are competing and the next
upload will deal with that (first we need to test some complex documents).
It’s probably something I changed and can’t find it in my git log.
Generally it seems to be a bit better than before, needs less trickery,
but it’s different enough that I had to start work on my current book
from the beginning.
It’s a novel of ~650 pages with a big range of paragraph lengths (some
dialogues with short lines as well as paragraphs that span pages). “Of
course” you often get a 3-line paragraph over a page break – it’s hard
to avoid widows and orphans.
I already do without grid, VZ works, HZ also should (I didn’t check with
a tracker, and it’s not so extreme that I’d see it), but it’s not enough
to automatically avoid single lines.
If a paragraph starts at page breaks, I can tweak the layout like
\page\setuplayout[narrow]. I defined narrow, normal, and wide versions
with 1 mm difference. Before I didn’t know you can call named layouts
like this, also relative page numbers like \definelayout[+1][wide] are nice.
If that’s not enough, I’m using \letterspacing with tiny ± values.
So much about dirty tricks. ;)
Hraban
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