> > 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 _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
