Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm

2014-05-03 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 02:23:10PM -0400, Peter Schaffter wrote: > > I suspect I'm a voice crying in the wilderness here, but we need to > consider that a greedy algorithm is almost always faster than a > dynamic programming solution; furthermore, greedy algorithms > sometimes lead to optimal solu

Re: [Groff] Formatting algorithm

2014-05-03 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014, Doug McIlroy wrote: > Equations and displayed quotations are not a problem for the line-breaking > algorithm; they'd all be handled in the macro packages, which would have > the duty to delimit the blocks of text that are to be treated unitarily. > > But that doesn't mean we'