At 2024-08-31T17:23:49-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> A day after opning on the subject,
> I came across a delicious example,
> "suspended between the nas-
>
> tiness of life and the meanness
> of death", split just like that between
> recto and verso of the first leaf of
> Toni Morrison's classic
A day after opning on the subject,
I came across a delicious example,
"suspended between the nas-
tiness of life and the meanness
of death", split just like that between
recto and verso of the first leaf of
Toni Morrison's classic "Beloved".
Doug
> > I believe distorting the shapes of letters is even more frowned
> > upon in typesetting circles than consecutive hyphenation is.
>
> Tadziu, were you referring to your language (where I *think*
> hyphenation would always be necessary)?
Sorry if my wording was a bit vague. I was referring t
On 30/8/24 20:54, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
\s[-X]\H[+X]text to be kerned goes here\H[0]\s0
I believe distorting the shapes of letters is even more frowned
upon in typesetting circles than consecutive hyphenation is.
I agree that if the distortion becomes visible then it was the wrong
tool fo
> \s[-X]\H[+X]text to be kerned goes here\H[0]\s0
I believe distorting the shapes of letters is even more frowned
upon in typesetting circles than consecutive hyphenation is.
As a practical approach to manually optimizing the line
breaks in a paragraph, I have found that twiddling the space
siz
> .hlm nSet the consecutive automatically hyphenated line limit
>to to n. A negative value means "no limit".
What happens after that count is reached is that the next
line is stretched wide, simply to avoid hyphenation (unless
.na is used, in which case the line is simply broke
Hi again Branden,
I'll let others respond regarding the morality of dangling hyphens on
the last line. :-)
On 30/8/24 16:38, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2024-08-30T16:29:03+1000, Robert Thorsby wrote:
I wouldn't call myself a typographer but I refuse to allow hyphens to
break, usually via '
Hi Robert,
At 2024-08-30T16:29:03+1000, Robert Thorsby wrote:
> I wouldn't call myself a typographer but I refuse to allow hyphens to
> break, usually via '.hy 0' or by using '\%'. I then kern the tripe out
> of any offending line, often using Ted Harding's "poor man's kerning"
> trick.
Ooh, that
Hi Branden,
On 30/8/24 15:22, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
I need guidance from real typographers.
GNU troff has long borne the following feature.
I presume that this is configurable because it becomes uncomfortable for
the reader to see a river of hyphens at the right margin.
My question is: s
