Whatever you do, don't do what Microsoft and relatives do by *assuming*
a block of text in one line is a paragraph, and you can't write a
paragraph as a series of shorter single lines.
Word was written for idiots who don't want to learn anything they don't
have to, and it drives me nuts!
I do al
Brave statement -- good luck!
Unlike TeX, troff has no modes, so a method of delimiting a paragraph has to
be introduced. Text outside would be treated as currently, text inside would
be subject to whatever algorithm is selected. Some care to get this right
should be taken, as for macro sets to t
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:41:56PM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Ulrich,
>
> > Even if a greedy algorithm will be implemented, it should have the
> > whole paragraph available as input. That way, one could easily switch
> > over to a KP-implementation and compare the two appraoches in terms o
Hi Ulrich,
> Even if a greedy algorithm will be implemented, it should have the
> whole paragraph available as input. That way, one could easily switch
> over to a KP-implementation and compare the two appraoches in terms of
> quality, running time, and code complexity. Provided a clean
> interf
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 07:44:07PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> Here's the bare bones version of the algorithm I was thinking of
> when I proposed improving line formatting by getting groff to
> shoulder the burden for some of the work we do manually. It's
> written out in brute-force pseudo-co
