In all fairness, the only thing stopping me from attempting this is my lack of confidence (and general dislike) of C++.
Eventually, I might take a crack… probably in an effort to marry the miracle called variable fonts <https://v-fonts.com/> with my love of Troff, fuelled by my lifelong obsession with anything typography-related. Granted, the code will probably be ported from something I wrote in JavaScript, but that's besides the point… ;-) On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 00:06, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Dave Kemper wrote on Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 08:17:25PM -0500: > > On 7/31/20, Peter Schaffter <pe...@schaffter.ca> wrote: > > >> Several years ago, I fielded the idea that, instead of chasing after > >> the Grail of paragraph-at-once, groff's line-formatting algorithm be > >> improved instead. I worked on systems that used the formatting > >> strategy I proposed > >> > >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2014-03/msg00322.html > >> > >> and can confirm that it significantly reduced the amount of > >> intervention required to achieve good grey on a line-by-line basis. > >> There wasn't much interest in the proposal back then--I felt a bit > >> like a voice crying in the wilderness--but maybe it's time to try > >> crying again? > > > I wonder if it's less a lack of interest and more a recognition that > > we have a shortage of people with the willingness and expertise to > > make any substantive changes to the groff code. I, and I'm sure > > others, welcome any improvements to typographic output, but it's hard > > to get excited over ideas -- even good ideas -- if no one plans to > > turn them into working code. That situation hasn't changed much since > > 2014. > > Exactly. When you post an idea and five people reply with ten > arguments why it is unlikely to work, it was often a bad idea. > But if you get no reply, it may still be an excellent idea. > > For example, i often drop out of discussions, even interesting > discussions, when i don't plan to do the work, or even don't join > them in the first place in that case. > > Yours, > Ingo > >
