Re: [Groff] space width

2014-02-01 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014, hoh...@arcor.de wrote: > > Werner LEMBERG wrote (Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:37:05 +0100 > (CET)): > > 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

Re: [Groff] space width

2014-02-01 Thread hohe72
Werner LEMBERG wrote (Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:37:05 +0100 (CET)): > 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). I think, that an author can prev

Re: [Groff] space width

2014-02-01 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Letter-spacing is bad in general. > > I find this statement a bit too broad, especially in the context of > groff, whose only means of justifying lines presently is through the > expansion of wordspace, often with ghastly results. Well, even if it is the only possible solution in groff, letter-

Re: [Groff] space width

2014-02-01 Thread Walter Alejandro Iglesias
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:06:11PM -0500, Peter Schaffter 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