Re: [Groff] holistic widow elimination

[Werner LEMBERG]

> How radically different is Heirloom troff's code from groff's?

Heirloom troff is essentially using TeX's algorithm (with slight
simplifications, AFAIK) to format paragraphs.

> Is there anything in groff that would conflict with implementations
> of .padj, .minss and .letadj?  Their absence, or the absence of
> analogous requests, strikes me as a major stumbling block in groff.

It would be necessary to completely rewrite the paragraph formatting
algorithm.


    Werner