Feature Requests item #743, was opened at 2007-03-06 03:20 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=743&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Robert (schlcht) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Fake beginning/end of line for protrusion Initial Comment: Although the situation with missing protrusion has certainly improved, there are still a lot of cases where characters will not be protruded (e.g. with indented paragraphs, at the beginning of list items, or of table cells). So I think it would be useful to have some commands that make pdftex believe that it is at the beginning or end of a line (e.g. \protchar{left,right}). So that you could for instance say: \item\protcharleft ``... Difficult? ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Taco Hoekwater (taco) Date: 2007-03-06 09:00

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1608 I will be experimenting with Aleph's \localleftbox somewhere next month, that may be a starting point. But it is unlikely that any command based on that will be able to influence line breaking. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: The Thanh Han (hanthethanh) Date: 2007-03-06 08:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=710 yes it makes sense. I am not sure whether \protcharleft could be implemented as macro: one can fetch the next char, get the lpcode and do a corresponding kern. However I don't know how to convert a character to its charcode to fetch the relevant lpcode. Another problem is that if the next char is part of a ligature (as in your example), it doesn't work. Looks like a primitive is needed. Does anyone have a suggestion how it could be implemented? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=743&group_id=106