Re: @Scale seems to kill hyphenation

[Mark Summerfield]

On Wednesday 19 December 2001 21:40 pm, Jeff Kingston wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:19:41 +0000, Mark Summerfield wrote:
>   > I wrote this definition:
>   >
>   > import @BasicSetup
>   > def @C right x
>   > {
>   >     { 0.75 1.0 } @Scale { Courier Base 9p } @Font x
>   > }
>   >
>   > It is identical to @F (from bsf), except for the scaling, and the use
>   > of a fixed point size.
>   >
>   > Unfortunately, when I do this:
>   >
>   > @C{someVeryLongFunctionName()} it does not get hyphenated, even though
>   > @F{someVeryLongFunctionName()} does. I have tried
>   > @C{some}&address@hidden&address@hidden()}, but this has no effect;
>   > with @C, lout scales, not as I've asked but just to fit, and doesn't do
>   > any hyphenation.
>   >
>   > Is there a solution to this? Or am I doing something wrong?
>
> Hyphenation is a thing that is done to paragraphs, not exactly to
> individual words, although I know it looks that way.  I'm afraid
> that when
>
>     { 0.75 1.0 } @Scale { Courier Base 9p } @Font
> someVeryLongFunctionName()
>
> appears within a paragraph, it is not going to look to Lout like
> something that can be hyphenated.  Only words can be hyphenated;
> this thing is a scaled object.  Executive summary: no hope.

And I thought everything in lout was an object. Oh well. Version 4.0
perhaps :-)

> > with @C, lout scales, not as I've asked but just to fit,
>
> { 0.75 1.0 } @Scale should not scale to fit.  If it does, send me a
> small sample file and I will look into it for you.

I tried to reproduce it but I can't, so I was probably getting too tired
to realise what I was doing.

-- 
Mark.