Re: Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm

[Alexandre Garreau]

Le dimanĉo, 12-a de decembro 2021, 6-a horo kaj 4:18 CET Lars Ingebrigtsen 
a écrit :
> "Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)" <nicolas.rougier@inria.fr> writes:
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> > 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).

doing at least the same as TeX might be doable.