RE: [Groff] mom: Some follow-up questions

[Mats Broberg]

> > Btw, I think I read somewhere that groff never ever hyphenates the 
> > last word on a page. Is that true? I guess that makes the 
> guys over at 
> > comp.text.tex envious. There are quite a few threads about 
> how to make 
> > TeX & Children succeed with that...!
> 
> Don't draw premature conclusions from this "feature".  Since 
> groff does not intrinsically have a paragraph optimizing 
> capability, the only possible way to achieve this result is 
> to simply pull the complete word onto the next page and to 
> stretch the space between the remaining words on the line.  
> In general (in my experience) the holes in the line resulting 
> from this treatment are an even worse deterrent to fluid 
> reading than a word hyphenated across a page boundary.  
> Fortunately groff also *does* allow one to hyphenate the last 
> word on a page.

Thanks for the explanation. Yes, I forgot for a moment there that
groff's line-breaking algorithm is line-based rather than
paragraph-based...

Best regards,
Mats Broberg