Hi Eric,
Doug wrote:
> > In pic, the thing I miss most is polygons (preferably allowing arcs
> > and splines as edges) that can be filled. After that, the next step
> > is a big one: lightweight constraint-based drawing; Van Wyk's Ideal
> > (SIGPLAN Notices 16:6) is a proof of concept. Can that b
Hi,
Doug wrote:
> There is one property of TeX (and HTML) that's worth emulating:
> recursive nesting. It's a challenge to the preprocessor model (eqn,
> tbl, pic), but one that deserves serious consideration. How about
> letting "preprocessors" be called by piping segments out and back, not
> o
Hi Peter,
> Filtered through a simple sed script, the resulting mom file preserves
> all of the semantics, has *no* low-level groff requests, and requires
> exactly 4 trivial tweaks (to satisfy my personal aesthetics).
OOI, do you code those tweaks as sed?
> [heading 2] "Manpages"
>
> The n
Ralph Corderoy :
> Perhaps [ideal has] become available since then as part of one of their
> re-licensings?
I can find no evidence of any such happy development on the web.
> Are you aware of
>
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/103.ps.gz,
> CSTR #103, C. J. Van Wyk, Bell Labs, Decembe
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 3/27/14, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> is it really necessary to scan an entire paragraph
> to determine optimal linebreaks if judiciously adjusted word-and
> letter-spacing on a line-by-line basis can produce similar results?
The more relevant question is, *can* a line-by-line algorithm, with
some
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
>> 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-
Hi,
Dave Kemper wrote:
> The more relevant question is, *can* a line-by-line algorithm, with
> some tweaks, produce results on par with an algorithm that considers
> the entire paragraph?
>
> I can't answer this definitively, of course, but I suspect it cannot.
If one is 15% of the implementatio
