Re: How to forbid horizontal overflows totally (in some cases)?

Am 28.03.2026 um 01:52 schrieb Jairo A. del Rio:
> Hi, I want to know if ConTeXt currently has a simpler mechanism to 
> achieve what is in the title, i.e., avoid text overflows at all. 
> Something similar to "ugly MSWord justify" for some specific cases. I've 
> attached an example of what I need to do and what I've come up with so 
> far (formulas are just for testing, not actual content).

You can use a large value for \emergencystretch, e.g. extremestretch 
sets the value to 10*bodyfontsize.

\showframe

\starttext

\startalignment[extremestretch,paragraph]

\startluacode

local op = {
   {"+", function(a,b) return a + b end},
   {"-", function(a,b) return a - b end},
   {"*", function(a,b) return a * b end}
}

context.dontleavehmode()
for i = 1, 100 do
   local a = math.random(1,1000)
   local b = math.random(1,1000)
   local o = math.random(1,3)
   context.hbox(string.formatters["%d%s%d = %d"](a, op[1][1], b, 
op[1][2](a,b)))
   context.space()
end

\stopluacode

\stopalignment

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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