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Re: [Groff] Colours & smart quotes


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [Groff] Colours & smart quotes
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:17:34 +0100 (CET)

> Werner> TeX can optimize the line breaks for a whole paragraph,
> Werner> whereas groff is limited to a single line.
> 
> Huh?  When groff was first announced one of the big things was the
> use of TeX's 'line breaking algorithm', which is by definition a
> paragraph algorithm.

This is definitely not used.

> Did I misunderstand JJC's meaning back then?  (Damn, is it really 12
> years now?)

groff uses TeX's _hyphenation_ algorithm.  Maybe you've confused these
two things.


    Werner

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