From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: *roff hyphenation trivia challenge
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 17:12:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiVLU+s3MQz1fKoHk7XX26tDTEqxUeurPHdjmCJF3k6zrw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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> [Tex's] oversetting of lines caused by the periodic failure of the
> paragraph-justification algorithms drove me nuts.
Amen. If Tex can't do what it thinks is a good job, it throws a fit
and violates the margin, hoping to force a rewrite. Fortunately,
one can shut off the line-break algorithm and simply fill greedily.
The command to do so is \sloppy--an ironic descriptor of text
that looks better, albeit not up to Tex's discriminating standard.
Further irony: when obliged to write in Tex, I have resorted to
turning \sloppy mode on globally.
Apologies for airing an off-topic pet peeve,
Doug
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