Jeremias Maerki wrote:
So far the most helpful resource for understanding the whole story was
"Digital Typography" by Donald Knuth (chapter 3 only):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1575860104
The chapter in question (Breaking Paragraphs Into Lines) was originally
published by Knuth a
Thanks for the pointers. I already got the Digital Typography book a
few months ago-- I didn't know that Ch. 3 was also helpful for the
*page* breaking. I'll look more at that chapter again.
Glen
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
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Glen,
the branch uses Knuth's algorithms for both line and page breaking.
BTW, is the page breaking also using Knuth's algorithms, or is it from
the research paper* that Jeremias ordered a few months back and was
mentioning to us? I have been generically calling both the line- and
page-breaking the "Knuth code"--I don't know how correct that is.
Thanks,
Glen
* Also,
I realized just a few days ago that the breaking algorithm (in the
BreakingAlgorithm class) is not fully patched with Finn's great
refactoring of the Knuth code (bug 32612).
I must admit that this is due to my laziness: when I was playing with
Knuth's algorithm for page breaking I applied to my lo
