Re: Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

"Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)" <nicolas.rougier@inria.fr> writes:

> I'm reading the ongoing thread on variable pitch text filling and I
> did not see a mention to the Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm
> (the one used in TeX). Maybe I missed it but I wanted to be sure it
> has been considered (I'm making a separate post to not break the
> vraible pitch thread). Original article:
> http://www.eprg.org/G53DOC/pdfs/knuth-plass-breaking.pdf

I think our goals are rather more modest than implementing all
typographic niceties, especially since that usually entails getting
hyphenation right (which is a major problem and I don't think there's
anything that really does that correctly automatically).

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