Re: Lyx and style

[William Adams]

Matej Cepl responded:
(to my criticizing the lout-created docs for nonpareil)
>Automatic care for widows and orphans is discouraged in the
>serious typography, because impossible. It usually involves some
>stretching of in-between-lines space.

Take a look at how LaTeX 3 handles it. Alternately, I really would like to see a batch pagination tool which would make fixing them easier (or even allow one to plan for them in advance for straight text composition).

>Other means of the
>resolving issues (aka Knuth's algorithm) are not 100% successfull
>(compare with TeX which doesn't always break lines correctly), so
>some w/o remains.

>So, the author included the feature, but he preferred not to use
>it for this document. What's wrong with that?

It seems to me that a person who is advocating a typographic tool should strive to demonstrate skill at typography and an awareness of it, even if that means some hand-work.

William

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