On Fri, Mar 28, 2014, Dave Kemper wrote:
> On 3/27/14, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> > Have you checked out the 'install-font.sh' script at
> >
> > http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-05.html#install-font
> >
> > Takes about two seconds to install a font.
>
> I've used this script and I agree it's great
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:34:27AM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
>
> > But my fundamental complaint about Knuthian line-breaking is
> > that anything that takes 66 journal pages to describe can't be
> > right.
>
Most of the 66 pages are motivation, examples, and results.
The description of the algori
>> Have you checked out the 'install-font.sh' script [...]
>
> I've used this script and I agree it's great. But it's not part of
> groff, not distributed with groff, [...]
I don't object if someone is adding this to groff's `contrib'
directory (however, using a better name like `install-groff-
On 3/27/14, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014, Boss Hog wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:34:27AM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
>> >
>> > My feeling is that the quality of the line-breaking algorithm is something
>> > that will be noticed by typography nerds, but the difficulty of insta
Hi Eric,
> Does anyone have contact with the author? I cannot think of any other
> plaisible way to trace the location of the code back to a person with
> release authority at Alcatel-Lucent.
He's at Drew now. http://www.users.drew.edu/~cvanwyk/cvwvita.htm I
think that email address may be out
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014, Boss Hog wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:34:27AM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> >
> > My feeling is that the quality of the line-breaking algorithm is something
> > that will be noticed by typography nerds, but the difficulty of installing
> > new typefaces...
Have you chec
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 03:34:27AM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
>
> My feeling is that the quality of the line-breaking algorithm is something
> that will be noticed by typography nerds, but the difficulty of installing
> new typefaces is something that will be noticed by any groff user who
> wants a
> My feeling is that the quality of the line-breaking algorithm is
> something that will be noticed by typography nerds, [...]
You will notice that immediately if you reduce the line length. The
shorter the lines, the more problematic is groff's paragraph layout.
If you want to set, say, three-c
On 3/25/14, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> As for real Knuthian line-breaking: when forced to use TeX, I
> typically resort to "/sloppy" mode to avoid the temper tantrums
> TeX throws when it can't do a good job.
I've never used TeX, so I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are the
temper tantrums peculiar
