On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:29:50 -0400 Peter Schaffter <pe...@schaffter.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014, Joachim Walsdorff wrote: > > it would be fine if you could provide an example text, formatted > > both with groff and Heirloom troff, to demonstrate us the > > typographic gain by `paragraph-at-once formatting´ against `line > > formatting´. > > http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/doctools/just.pdf > That is one interesting document...showing clearly the quality gain with paragraph-at-once formatting, as well as other things. The shaped paragraph facility is one that would greatly benefit groff. I did suggest it many years ago, but it wasn't taken up. I believe that it could be done with line formatting as well. Oh, and the PDF document above was beyond my version of Firefox's ability. I downloaded it: gv fails, finding errors and showing all the wrong glyphs; evince showed it fine but a page at a time. I regret to say that Adobe reader was the only one that correctly rendered as two-up. This also relates to the question of OTF and the need for a more sophisticated way in groff of referencing glyphs. For example I have a font with both regular caps and small caps, but the latter are called A_sc etc, so different encodings are required in the same font. Denis --
