Re: Hyphetation broken with last commits

[Luca Furini]

Manuel Mall wrote:

Luca, 
why does our line breaking algorithm insist on having at least one Box 
in a paragraph? Is that inherent in the Knuth algorithm, i.e. can't it 
deal with empty paragraphs, that is paragraphs containing only Glue/Pen 
elements?

If I remember correctly, a sequence starting with glue / penalty elements 
would not make the algorithm crash, but the produced ouput will take into 
account the width of the glues too, while it should not.

This happens because there is not a "previous break", whose handling would 
have the effect of ignoring glues and penalties between the break and the 
first next box.

We could maybe move the leading space removal at the beginning of the 
breaking algorithm itself, which could then check if there are some 
elements left and create an "empty line break" if there is none.

HTH, unfortunately these days I'm really really busy and I have not much 
time to look at this.

    Luca