On 11/09/2011 06:03 AM, john Culleton wrote: > Microtypograpy in TeX will solve the problem without visibly > stretching just one letter. All letters can be > stretched/compressed by tiny amounts to take up the slack.
I'm sure it can. However, a Sefer Torah is written by hand, exactly the same way it was over a thousand years ago, and the last line of a verse is always justified (when appropriate) by extending only the last letter. It's not a matter of "there's another way to do it," it's a question of can either TeX or Scribus match the traditional way of filling the space? And, of course, whoever sets it up has to know when to do it and when to start the next verse without a paragraph break, but that's a different issue.
