Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A fewquestions

2005-03-11 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> 1: Language, how is that handled? Different languages need different > hyphenation files. A general remark: groff uses a simplified version of TeX's hyphenation algorithm; it can also directly read (simple) TeX pattern files. There is basically no restriction on the number of languages which ca

Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A fewquestions

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005, Larry Kollar wrote: > >I'm not sure what the state of the .wdc request is (i.e. if it's > >been fully tested and is stable). If anyone has experience with > >it, could they let me know? > > It seems to work, but requires a little fiddling with paragraph macros. > The archiv

Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A fewquestions

2005-03-10 Thread Larry Kollar
I'm not sure what the state of the .wdc request is (i.e. if it's been fully tested and is stable). If anyone has experience with it, could they let me know? It seems to work, but requires a little fiddling with paragraph macros. The archives should have a message from me, maybe a couple of years

Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A fewquestions

2005-03-10 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Thu Mar 10 15:02:04 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005, Mats Broberg wrote: ... > > 1: Language, how is that handled? Different languages need different > > hyphenation files. > > Language-specific hyphenation is not implemented as a mom macro. > The groff request, .hla , is

Re: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A fewquestions

2005-03-10 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005, Mats Broberg wrote: > Yes, automatically hanging of punctuation and certain other characters > in left and right margin would be very nice indeed. In pdfTeX one can > set the degree of protrusion character per character. I'm wondering if anyone on the list has suggestions for

RE: [Groff] The quest for a high-end typesetting system: A fewquestions

2005-03-10 Thread Mats Broberg
Peter Schaffter wrote: > Please bear in mind that your concerns are most likely less > "what groff can do" than "what a particular macro set does > natively." Anything a macro set doesn't do you can usually > make groff do, either at the "primitive" level, or, more > commonly, by writing your