Justify text in work area does not work as expected

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org
Thu Jun 25 17:34:36 UTC 2020


Le 25/06/2020 à 19:28, Daniel a écrit :
> By the way, non-greedy algorithms for text justification, i.e. those 
> that do not just put as many words into each line as possible (starting 
> from the first) but try to reach greater equality between length of 
> spaces, are to slow, right? Both Writer and Word seem to use only the 
> greedy algorithm. (Pages does some weird stuff by spacing out characters 
> within words.) So, I guess that's the case. I was just curious.

I do ot know whether they are too slow, but they are definitely more 
complicated. I am not sure that the gain is worth the effort.
(TeX does this and much more for the final output, though)

JMarc


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