Re: Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: "\"H. Özoguz\"" <h.oezoguz@mmnetz.de>
Subject: Re: Too many word-breaks in consecutive lines
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:40:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5169360A.9060901@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51692B28.9060700@mmnetz.de>

On 4/13/2013 11:53 AM, "H. Özoguz" wrote:
>> 100 % automated typesetting
>> with 100 % perfect results is impossible
>
> Hans, I dont think so. Manual typesetting is not "100 % perfect", too.
> Why automated typesetting shouldn't be able
> to obtain the same results, like men – some day. Of course that needs
> much more than just typesetting-rules, e.g. some times
> one has to rephrase some sentences to get a good result, but this will
> be possible for programms in future, too.
> For typesetting alorithms it holds the same, like for chess programms in
> the past, now fulfilled:
> They will get to the men-level, and even (far) beyond that.

Chess has quite precise rules (and I wonder if a chess program will 
choose an nice but risky step over a winning one) while typesetting also 
involves esthetics and therefore only a simulation of what goes on into 
someones head can help out.

It will probably take some years to reach the point where we have 
hard/software that can match or bypass human brains in that area but at 
that point there might be no reason for typesetting any more as we then 
can as well render (given proper sources) realtime using implants and 
directly project on our retina or even skip that step of rendering 
altogether and consume raw data.

Also, given that in education currently we struggle with the fact that
kids have a small attention span and get difficulties with reading texts 
longer than a tweet (I have to admit I never twet myself) we might as 
well start thinking simple and small: ragged right, not hyphenated, etc. 
the fashion in dutch education already for years (thanks to professional 
dtp systems not capable of doing flushed properly so that designers 
entered 'no risk mode').

http://www.fontaineuitgevers.nl/wp/kleine-twittercursus-van-het-heelal/

So, what remains of typesetting is the craft and somewhat manual aspect: 
liking 'this' more that 'that' and messing a bit around.

Hans

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