Re: [Groff] Sun's troff now available

[Larry Kollar]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > If you had a "pre-output" macro (just as you can have macros which
> > are sprung by bottom-of-page, so you could have macros sprung by
> > "about to output line"), then this could look at [...]
>
> Similar to TeX I think it is next to impossible to find a suitable
> macro interface for the things you want to do.

Pity. Seems like an elegant concept, and very familiar.

> > a) Inter-word spaces: if larger than a threshold, expand the
> >    inter-character space until these are reduced below it.
>
> Instead of handling this with a macro I could imagine to set and unset
> a flag which makes troff do that.
>
> > b) Is there an end-of-line character (like the soft hyphen above,
> >    which might not have been explicit in the source) which we would
> >    like to hang over the end of the line?  Then slightly increase
> >    the linelength of this line (or redefine "-" to have smaller
> >    width, or whatever) so that it sticks out by the right amount.
>
> Ditto.

Wasn't there a compile-time option for hanging punctuation at one  
time, similar to the widow/orphan option? A quick grep doesn't turn  
it up in the source, so perhaps I was hallucinating.

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