On Sep 26, 2005, at 16:03, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
It's an interesting idea. However, I suspect this will probably not be
necessary. We should be able to make the breaker clever enough to
handle
this particular case. ATM, I don't have free brain capacity to dive
into
this (even though this is an important and long-awaited feature) but it
may make sense to gather ideas and notes from the mailing list archives
and put these on a Wiki page. I remember that several approaches have
been discussed in the past even though they haven't had anything to do
with our current breaking approach.
OK, I was just probing... Since that 'spark' --referring to your recent
response to my completely misguided idea on tables ;-)-- lit my fire,
I'm beginning to see all sorts of possibilities. Some things are
falling into place now --been re-reading the Wiki docs, and browsing
through the Knuth-related code, and this all makes very much more sense
now.
(Haven't read Knuth's book/paper myself yet, so that was still a bit of
a mystery to me)
When I find some time, I'll see what ideas I can dig up from the
archives, and how they may possibly relate (or be translated) to our
current layout code.
Cheers,
Andreas
