Re: Checking: difference between negative stretch and positive shrink?
On Sep 17, 2007, at 14:17, Luca Furini wrote: Andreas L Delmelle wrote: Just wondering about some KnuthSequences for spaces I noticed during a debug-session: Negative stretch is not the same as a positive shrink (and vice- versa): a negative stretch is used to cancel (or diminish) a positive one provided by some other elements: for each possible break point, however, the overall stretch / shrink should always be >= 0. The meaning of the mini-sequence above is: - if there is a break at the penalty element, there is some stretch for the line ending there - otherwise, the overall stretch is zero This is with unjustified text to give each line the same amount of stretch, so that the algorithm should build lines with similar length (while in justified text a line with many spaces and few letters could be stretched a lot). HTH It did. Thanks for the quick explanation. Cheers Andreas
Re: Checking: difference between negative stretch and positive shrink?
Andreas L Delmelle wrote: Just wondering about some KnuthSequences for spaces I noticed during a debug-session: glue w=0 stretch=10008 shrink=0 penalty w=0 p=0 glue w=3336 stretch=-10008 shrink=0 What does it mean that the latter glue can be stretched by a negative amount? Why not: glue w=3336 stretch=0 shrink=10008 Is there a difference as to how the algorithm treats these? Negative stretch is not the same as a positive shrink (and vice-versa): a negative stretch is used to cancel (or diminish) a positive one provided by some other elements: for each possible break point, however, the overall stretch / shrink should always be >= 0. The meaning of the mini-sequence above is: - if there is a break at the penalty element, there is some stretch for the line ending there - otherwise, the overall stretch is zero This is with unjustified text to give each line the same amount of stretch, so that the algorithm should build lines with similar length (while in justified text a line with many spaces and few letters could be stretched a lot). HTH Luca
