Re: [iText-questions] TeX-style line breaking

2006-07-31 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Peter B. West wrote: > The art of making that text easy to read has been developed within > narrow parameters for a few centuries now. Some of Knuth's papers > contain interesting discussions about this. I know the concept and it's one of the reason why people love TeX. I agree with Paulo that

Re: [iText-questions] TeX-style line breaking

2006-07-30 Thread Peter B. West
Paulo Soares wrote: > > > That's interesting although it won't be easy to integrate in iText > considering that lines are treated one by one. Is this line breaking > algorithm such a dramatic improvement over line by line best fit? I may > be wrong but this looks a lot like going from standard c

Re: [iText-questions] TeX-style line breaking

2006-07-27 Thread Paulo Soares
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Peter B. West > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:59 PM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: [iText-questions] TeX-style line breaking > > Brun

[iText-questions] TeX-style line breaking

2006-07-26 Thread Peter B. West
Bruno, Paulo, I've done an implementation of a modified TeX line-breaking algorithm with my current employer. My notes on the algorithm are at http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/knuth-plass.html These notes precede my current employment, and I have discussed with my employer my intention to im