On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 09:45:49PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Graham Percival <gra...@percival-music.ca> writes: > > > Sure. So we're asking if TeX can be tweaked to consider > > additional solutions. (namely, "always add a line-break before > > anything with an overfull hbox, regardless of what that makes the > > rest of that paragraph look lik") > > Sure, that is what the emergencystretch stuff (and the @finalout command > explained in the Texinfo chapter I cited) are all about. You can tell > TeX to go ahead and choose ugly rather than flag the problematic > paragraphs parts.
That sounds good. > > The answer could be "no, TeX is not flexible enough to do that". Fair > > enough; we're accustomed to living within the limitations of our > > tools. But this isn't an "impossible" or "magical" request. > > Phil already explained that he did not want to revert to the documented > solutions TeX considers too ugly for consideration without explicit > prodding. ... My initial reading was that Phil did not want to use @finalout (a position which I entirely agree with). I am not certain that we have adequately investigated/discussed emergencystretch. A quick google finds docs on emergencystretch, but I'm not certain I understand them. So I'll write an example and hope you can tell me if LaTeX can do it. ----------- linewidth ------ This is a paragraph which is justified like a normal paragraph in LaTeX. It is unchanged by any additional TeX tweaking. This is a paragraph which has a really long word and has benefitted from some kind of emergency-stretch-tweak which is IMHO exactly what we want in the lilypond documentation. ----------- linewidth ------ (must be viewed with a fixed-width font, of course) - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
