Hi, Hans:

but IMHO hpack is still buggy. see the second diff.


Yue Wang

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Taco:
>>
>> In TeX's Packaging algorithm, TeX wraps lists into boxes. Knuth create
>> two functions, hpack (p,w,m) and vpack (p,w,m)=
>> vpackage(p,w,m,max_dimen) to solve this problem.
>> In the LuaTeX manual, (4.1.3.13), only node.hpack is given. maybe we
>> should also write something called node.vpack?
>>
>> I wrote one for LuaTeX since I need it in my document project. I think
>> it will be useful to others too. The code is easy to write by
>> following yours and here is the patch:
>
> fyi: vpack is on the agenda for later (probably after the complete rewrite
> to cweb)
>
> quite certainly vpack will demand a rewrite of core code as it has to deal
> with quite some related things as well
>
> it's no problem of course to use your variant locally for a while, but be
> prepared for a different interface
>
> Hans
>
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