4 Mar
2018
4 Mar
'18
10 p.m.
On Mar 4, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
I remembered reading about Knuth's line-breaking algorithm in
Software Practice & Experience in early eighties and being quite
impressed with it. So may be that clear description of the algorithm
has something to do with it? Ah, here it is:
“Breaking Paragraphs into lines” by Donald Knuth & Plass,
SP&E, Volume 11, issue 11, Nov. 1981
(Download from Wiley is not free)
On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Doug McIlroy
<doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
I hadn't realized that groff hyphenation had been taken from
Tex, not troff. Is that becuase Tex did a better job, or
because troff's was deemed proprietary?
Given the author, I would guess the later as he wanted to be FOSS and would not have
looked at the ditroff source - but that guess is worth just that ;-)