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Re: Page and line penalties
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
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Re: Page and line penalties |
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Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:16:15 +0200 |
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Joe Neeman wrote:
As far as I can tell, page and line penalties are used _only_ for forbidding
and forcing page breaks.
correct
> Is there much chance they will ever be used for
anything else? If not, they could be replaced by booleans - this would make
hopefully, we can use inverse durations of rests as penalties to provide
a somewhat sensible automatic line/page breaking.
One problem that needs to be solved is that the penalties are actually
forces, but they does not translate to a scale that is sensible for
users (or it does, but I don't know what scale)
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