Re: Setting lines individually vs by paragraph (was Re: widows vs orphans)

2023-06-25 Thread Oliver Corff
Sorry, the summer heat deteriorates my visual spell-checking performance: 1. s/wether/whether/ 2. s/\/upon/ Please accept my apologies, Oliver. On 25/06/2023 21:44, Oliver Corff wrote: debates about the "paragraph-at-once" algorithms (which have never worked in a satisfying way to me when I

Re: Setting lines individually vs by paragraph (was Re: widows vs orphans)

2023-06-25 Thread Oliver Corff
debates about the "paragraph-at-once" algorithms (which have never worked in a satisfying way to me when I have needed to typeset with TeX). Accepting that no algorithm will produce perfect results, the question isn't whether paragraph-at-once algorithms obviate the need for human intervention, b

Setting lines individually vs by paragraph (was Re: widows vs orphans)

2023-06-25 Thread Dave Kemper
On 6/15/23, Steve Izma wrote: > One of its main > points was to argue in favour of final aesthetic adjustments > being made by humans as opposed to algorithms. Well, of course the HUMAN typographer thinks that. ;-> > debates about the "paragraph-at-once" algorithms (which have > never worked in

Re: widows vs orphans

2023-06-25 Thread Dave Kemper
On 6/15/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-06-15T15:10:41-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: >> I learned the following when I was an apprentice typesetter: >> "Widows have no future and orphans have no past." > > If "future" and "past" mean "words {after, before} them on the page", > then I find