On 2007-08-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:55:07AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
Oh! I misunderstood. Thanks for the explanation. Yes, that would be
a nice alternative to the current algorithm.
I recently wrote an implementation of the optimal line breaking
Gary Johnson wrote:
On 2007-08-16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:55:07AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
Oh! I misunderstood. Thanks for the explanation. Yes, that would be
a nice alternative to the current algorithm.
I recently wrote an implementation
Ismo Puustinen mentioned:
I recently wrote an implementation of the optimal line breaking
algorithm (in Ruby). If you are interested, the file is located
here, with a small piece of test code at the end:
http://lissujaismo.net/rbpar/rbpar_engine.rb
You can run the test
Andrew Myers wrote:
Actually, I think I would make the strong claim that what I am
talking about is not just some personal preference, but a fairly
universal one. All serious text formatting systems try to make line
lengths equal (without introducing additional line breaks), because
On Aug 15, 2007, at 3:21 AM, Matthew Winn wrote:
I get the impression that the OP doesn't want right-aligned text, but
wants a better distribution of ragged-right lines. For example,
consider the first two lines of this paragraph. The naïve breaking
algorithm used by my mail client has left
Georg Dahn wrote:
Andrew Myers wrote:
Actually, I think I would make the strong claim that what I am
talking about is not just some personal preference, but a fairly
universal one. All serious text formatting systems try to make line
lengths equal (without introducing additional line
On Aug 14, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Tuesday, August 14 at 12:04 PM, quoth Andrew Myers:
The gq formatting feature in vim is very useful. Has anyone
looked into making it do optimal line breaking, so text lines
tend to be closer to the same length? There is a dynamic
On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Georg Dahn wrote:
Andrew Myers wrote:
Yes, but it would be nice to have it work cross-platform. As long as
there's an internal text formatting feature, why not make it do a
good job?
It does already a good job. It depends on what you want it to do: if
you'd
