On 2/1/14, Walter Alejandro Iglesias <e...@roquesor.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014, Werner Lemberg wrote: >>> Given today's memory abundance and the high velocity of CPUs, the >>> ideal route would be to implement a document-wide algorithm for >>> typesetting a document (in contrast to TeX's page-wide approach). > > You want more features because you have more memory, and you want more > memory because you want more features.
My system has scandalously little physical memory for a machine in 2014, but I would still love to have a document-wide formatting algorithm available in groff. As long as groff provided the choice to optimize for either minimizing resource usage or maximizing quality of output, I could run in the former mode during development and then have the final document prepared in the latter mode overnight. In other words, I want this feature because I covet higher quality output, not because I have all this memory lying around I don't know what else to do with.
