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

Thank you very much, Wolfgang! This does what I intended.

El sáb, 28 mar 2026 a la(s) 2:35 a.m., Wolfgang Schuster (
[email protected]) escribió:

> 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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