Ralph Corderoy: > Is it non-standard? I thought the normal way was > to set up two passes, or more strictly a loop > until everything settles down into place, as this > is how TeX does it too IIRC. Not that TeX's way > of doing anything necessarily makes it right. ;-)
I meant, non-standard for *roff, as it was first designed to be a fast one-pass formatter. In TeX world, indeed, two passes are usual and an iterative algorithm (taking place within one pass) is used to adjust paragraphs beautifully. Of course, performace problems have much decreased since those days and I was only afraid of the possi- ble complications that would impose upon the toolchain. If to make it smart, using a tool that would allow for abstraction from the gory details, as Mike Bianchi has suggested, that would be great. Anton
