Re: Groff vs Heirloom troff (was Re: Quick question: how to do .index in groff?)

[Larry Kollar]

Dave Kemper <saint.snit@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/31/20, Steve Izma <sizma@golden.net> wrote:
>> I found that the TeX paragraph-at-a-time justification had to
>> be scrutinized and adjusted just as much as my groff work. The
>> trade-off to getting better word spacing was that often TeX just
>> failed and overset lines.
> 
> Do you know if either of the roffs that have implemented
> paragraph-at-once formatting (neatroff, Heirloom) exhibit the same
> problem?

I’ve not seen overset lines with neatroff (yet).

— Larry