[TUHS] [groff] The hyphenation algorithm produces wrong results

[Bakul Shah]

> On Mar 4, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
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>> I hadn't realized that groff hyphenation had been taken from
>> Tex, not troff. Is that becuase Tex did a better job, or
>> because troff's was deemed proprietary?
>> 
> 
> Given the author, I would guess the later as he wanted to be FOSS and would not have looked at the ditroff source - but that guess is worth just that ;-)

I remembered reading about Knuth's line-breaking  algorithm in
Software Practice & Experience in early eighties and being quite
impressed with it. So may be that clear description of the algorithm
has something to do with it? Ah, here it is:

“Breaking Paragraphs into lines” by Donald Knuth & Plass,
SP&E, Volume 11, issue 11, Nov. 1981

(Download from Wiley is not free)



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