On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM Steve Izma <si...@golden.net> wrote: > I used TeX and LaTeX [...] and the oversetting of lines caused > by the periodic failure of the paragraph-justification algorithms > drove me nuts. [...] The many lines that overset by only a > few points made proofreading really difficult. That's why I'm > suspicious of trying to add or replicate these algorithms in > groff.
It would be interesting to know if someone with experience using the Heirloom troff implementation of this algorithm (and with a good typographic eye) has noticed the same problem there. That is, is it a bug in the algorithm itself, or in TeX's implementation of it?
