[Scribus] TeX line break algorithm?

Petr Vaněk petr
Sat Feb 21 17:17:50 CET 2004


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hi flo.

at first - I don't know an answer for your question :)
at last - but implementing this algorithm rulez[1]. Won't
 you implement TeX spacing alg. too? it'll rulez[2] too brotha[3]

notes: [1] [2] [3] - sorry for this words but I'm listening one
local hiphop record. You cannot imagine their "coolness" :)))

On Friday 20 of February 2004 22:47, Florian Arnold wrote:
> Hello Scribus community,
>
> Are there any plans to provide a globally optimizing line break algorithm
> (the Plass/Knuth algorithm, as used in Tex) for Scribus? I think this
> algorithm is one of the greatest breakthroughs in high quality typesetting
> and I really can't understand, why this brilliant approach is literally
> ignored by nearly all typesetting computer programs. (In fact, TeX and -
> with a delay of over 20 years - InDesign are the only major programs that
> use it, AFAIK.)
>
> In order to change this a little bit, I'd love to implement this algorithm
> for Scribus (or contribute to an implementation). However, as a scribus
> newbie I can't estimate yet, if I'll have enough time for this. But I still
> have started to browse the sources. So far, I couldn't find the place where
> line breaking is done. Can anybody give me a hint?
>
> Thanks and bye,
> Florian

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