On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 07:00 pm, Peter B. West wrote: > Luca Furini wrote: > > Peter B. West wrote: > >> Thanks to Luca for his (perhaps entirely co-incidental) posting to <snip/> > Luca, > > There seem to be some misapprehensions about what you are attempting; > perhaps they are mine, so please clarify this. As I understand it, > the mature, well-documented technology is the line-breaking, as in > "Breaking > > Lines Into Paragraphs." Using this model for page-breaking is > something > > that has been speculated about, in particular by Plass. However, in > implementing this, you and the others are breaking new ground. > > If this is the case, then it is quite inaccurate to describe the > page-breaking as mature, well-understood, well-documented and > well-behaved technology. > > Is that fair? >
Actually in the "Breaking Paragraphs into Lines" paper Knuth explicitly mentions that the Box-Glue-Penalty model applies equally well in the vertical direction. > Peter Manuel
