Re: [Groff] groff data structures

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> For example, TeX's hyphenation works on glyphs instead of
>> characters.
>
> Seems to me like a good idea: two different glyphs for the
> same character might have widely differing metrics.

It's a very bad idea since hyphenation is completely independent from
the used glyphs and fonts!

Perhaps there is a misunderstanding: I'm talking about the process of
finding all possible breakpoints within a word.


    Werner