From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3760 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: river detection Date: 09 Jan 2001 13:45:01 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394478 19842 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:34:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:34:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: NTG-ConTeXt mailing list Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3760 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3760 Han The Thanh discusses in his thesis several problems that computer typography systems face. One problem that no current systems address is "rivers", visual lines of blank space like this: XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX xxXX XXXXXXXX Xxxxx XXXXXX XXXXX XX XXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXX XX XXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXX xxXX XXXXXXXX Xxxxx XXXXXX XXXXX X XXXX XXX XXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX XX ... where there's a river on the left. Hans has been doing many experiments combining MetaPost and TeX, where they share more information about the visual appearance of the typeset text than has traditionally been available. Would it be possible to use MP and TeX together in order to detect rivers? If so, it would be a computer typesetting first, according to Thanh's thesis. :) -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/