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Re: Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm |
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Sun, 12 Dec 2021 06:04:18 +0100 |
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"Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)" <nicolas.rougier@inria.fr> writes:
> I'm reading the ongoing thread on variable pitch text filling and I
> did not see a mention to the Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm
> (the one used in TeX). Maybe I missed it but I wanted to be sure it
> has been considered (I'm making a separate post to not break the
> vraible pitch thread). Original article:
> http://www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf
I think our goals are rather more modest than implementing all
typographic niceties, especially since that usually entails getting
hyphenation right (which is a major problem and I don't think there's
anything that really does that correctly automatically).
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