Re: [Groff] figurate text in groff and TeX

2015-10-10 Thread Doug McIlroy
> Is there a shaping method which provides optimal spacing whilst using traps? In priniciple, yes, but I haven't heard a better way of doing it than the multiprocess dynamic program that I once outlined on this mailing list; everyone guesses this would be too costly to run. This is a real challe

Re: [Groff] figurate text in groff and TeX

2015-10-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Doug, > But my actual question about figurate text was how in Tex (as distinct > from the Knuth line-breaking paper) would one specify the shape of a > non-rectangular paragraph, in which line length varies as some > function of vertical position. I could be going over old ground here, and my