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Rick JELLIFFE writes - > > Knuth made an interesting comment about TeX that there will always be > the need to hand-tune some pages. For example, if there is a large > anchored graphic that breaks onto the next page, causing large amounts > of whitespace on the previous page. Or if a chapter ends with a couple > of lines on a recto (odd) page. > Yes, and let's remember that Knuth says he made a design decision to cover only 99% of situations that would come up. He designed it for his own use first, and he felt that it would be quicker and better to hand-tune his pages once in a while than to try to write the code and get it working. He was interested in very low-rate, one-of-a-kind production of the highest quality possible. It seems that we're not sure of the intended use of FOs - high quality, low volume, or high volume, lower quality. Could one system do both well??? Tom Passin *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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