Frank, Sending this to [email protected], certainly has a better chance to be answered here.
> I'm very much interested in playing around with variations of Knuth's > paragraph breaking algorithm. Me too, it's been almost two years I'd like to but never had enough time to start, maybe now is the right time! > I recently learned that Taco (I think) did a full reimplementation in > lua that would be perfect for me to do a few experiments. > > Unfortunately I'm unable to to make this work e.g., produce a short TeX > file that actually uses the code. Anybody out there who could give a > helping hand? The best would certainly be to make a short plain TeX example using the raw file, and start to work on the bugs, maybe Taco and Hans would be ready to help? Maybe working on a github (or bitbucket or whatever) repository so that several people can work on it? We're using a "lualatex" group on github, it might be a good starting point? > meteorically I think such code should work with any flavor of TeX (eg > plain) Absolutely > but if there are some reasons that right now it is only possible > to use it with a very specific environment that doesn't matter for what > I'm trying to do ... all I need is something that I can feed paragraph > examples to. My idea when I think about that would be to make an optional package like 'luaparbuilder' that would use the code and provide a few callbacks and options. For instance I would just need to make a few operations on a line before the algorithm starts to evaluate it, so there could be a callback for that... What do you think? Thank you, -- Elie
