Sorry, the summer heat deteriorates my visual spell-checking performance:
1. s/wether/whether/
2. s/\/upon/
Please accept my apologies,
Oliver.
On 25/06/2023 21:44, Oliver Corff wrote:
debates about the "paragraph-at-once" algorithms (which have
never worked in a satisfying way to me when I
debates about the "paragraph-at-once" algorithms (which have
never worked in a satisfying way to me when I have needed to
typeset with TeX).
Accepting that no algorithm will produce perfect results, the question
isn't whether paragraph-at-once algorithms obviate the need for human
intervention, b
On 6/15/23, Steve Izma wrote:
> One of its main
> points was to argue in favour of final aesthetic adjustments
> being made by humans as opposed to algorithms.
Well, of course the HUMAN typographer thinks that. ;->
> debates about the "paragraph-at-once" algorithms (which have
> never worked in
On 6/15/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-06-15T15:10:41-0400, Peter Schaffter wrote:
>> I learned the following when I was an apprentice typesetter:
>> "Widows have no future and orphans have no past."
>
> If "future" and "past" mean "words {after, before} them on the page",
> then I find
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 03:40:47PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Subject: Re: widows vs orphans
>
> At 2023-06-15T13:41:38-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> > Although Wikipedia says there's no agreement on the
> > definitions of "widow" and "
At 2023-06-15T13:41:38-0500, Dave Kemper wrote:
> Although Wikipedia says there's no agreement on the definitions of
> "widow" and "orphan"
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans), web research has
> led me to conclude that there's a stronger consensus than Wikipedia
> credits: that orp
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, Dave Kemper wrote:
> ...web research has led me to conclude that there's a stronger
> consensus than Wikipedia credits: that orphans are at page bottom
> and widows at page top.
> What do our resident typographers regard as a widow and an orphan?
Without wanting to be pressc
> What do our resident typographers regard as a widow and an orphan?
Not an expert, but I thought the mnemonic was that orphans
become isolated at the beginning of their lives, and widows
at the end of their lives. Correspondingly, an orphan is the
first line of a paragraph that gets separated
Although Wikipedia says there's no agreement on the definitions of
"widow" and "orphan"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans), web research has
led me to conclude that there's a stronger consensus than Wikipedia
credits: that orphans are at page bottom and widows at page top. As
two da
