On Thu, Mar 27, 2014, Werner Lemberg wrote: > Well, as Tadziu's example shows, if you simply allow some squeezing of > the *inter-word* distances, you can get very nice results. If this > isn't good enough, some *minimum* letterspacing might be applied, as > done by pdftex. > > Not doing the former but only doing the latter is not good enough > IMHO.
We're in agreement. > > This kind of line-by-line letterspacing has been pretty much > > stock-in-trade since the earliest days of standalone > > phototypesetting systems, which is why I'm puzzled. > > My main concern is the improvement of *automatic* typesetting. Mine, too. :) I think what we all want from groff is a better approach to automatic formatting for general purpose, the-client-doesn't-want- to-pay-a-fortune typesetting. Concurrently, we don't want to fight with the program when fine typography is called for. -- Peter Schaffter http://www.schaffter.ca
