On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:52:30PM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:36:45PM -0700, Alan Amaya wrote: > > Think about how hatefully you might write a program to wrap combining > > characters to 80 columns, or how hateful you might find writing that program > > to be. > > In fact Donald Knuth has an elegant solution to the much more > difficult problem of paragraph justification. He describes the > algorithm in detail in his book Digital Typography. Hatefully, > though, no one uses it except for TeX.
Not true: GNU fmt(1) also uses it. --Dave
