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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Peter B. West
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 10:59 PM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: [iText-questions] TeX-style line breaking
>
> Bruno, Paulo,
>
> I've done an implementation of a modified TeX line-breaking algorithm
> with my current employer. My notes on the algorithm are at
> http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/knuth-plass.html
>
> These notes precede my current employment, and I have
> discussed with my
> employer my intention to implement the algorithm for Folio. They are
> untroubled by this. I am soon to release my hyphenation code,
> based on
> the most recent versions of the TeX patterns that I could
> find, and I am
> bundling this as a separate release, called HyFo. I will take
> the same
> approach with the line-breaking.
>
> I intend both the hyphenation and the line-breaking to be compatible
> with Java2D text processing, in order to take advantage of the work
> those guys are doing on kerning, ligatures, bidi and normalization.
>
> I'm interested in feedback on whether the line-breaking will be of
> interest to you guys, and if so, to get some feedback on
> integration issues.
>
That's interesting although it won't be easy to integrate in iText
considering that lines are treated one by one. Is this line breaking
algorithm such a dramatic improvement over line by line best fit? I may
be wrong but this looks a lot like going from standard color PAL TV to
HDTV. It's better but it's not really a compelling reason to change
whereas a change from black and white TV to color TV was a revolution.
Paulo
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