Re: "transparent" output and throughput, demystified

2024-08-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Deri, At 2024-08-31T17:07:28+0100, Deri wrote: > On Saturday, 31 August 2024 00:07:57 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: [fixing two of my own typos and one wordo in the following] > > It would be cleaner and simpler to provide a mechanism for > > processing a string directly, discarding escape seq

Re: a question of hyphenation policy

2024-08-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-08-31T17:23:49-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > A day after opning on the subject, > I came across a delicious example, > "suspended between the nas- > > tiness of life and the meanness > of death", split just like that between > recto and verso of the first leaf of > Toni Morrison's classic

Re: a question of hyphenation policy

2024-08-31 Thread Douglas McIlroy
A day after opning on the subject, I came across a delicious example, "suspended between the nas- tiness of life and the meanness of death", split just like that between recto and verso of the first leaf of Toni Morrison's classic "Beloved". Doug

Re: "transparent" output and throughput, demystified

2024-08-31 Thread Deri
On Saturday, 31 August 2024 00:07:57 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > It would be cleaner and simpler to provide a mechanism for processing a > string directly, discarding escape sequences (like vertical motions or > break points [with or without hyphenation). This point is even more > emphatic be