Lout, HZ-algorithm and chapter justification [?]

[Aslak Raanes]

Hi,

Some time ago (ca 1 month) there was an interesting question about
something called Herman Zapf-algorithm on <url:news:comp.text.tex>.

You could try to get the thread starting at
<url:news:address@hidden> or get it from
<url:http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~aslakr/hz.html> where I saved the most
relevant messages.

Could something like HZ be implemented in Lout?

It looks like HZ goes a bit further than TeX and Lout by adjusting the
lettershapes.

Here are a excerpt from two of the messages:

In article
<url:news:address@hidden>
Barbara Beeton <url:mailto:address@hidden> wrote:

> [...] the goal is to achieve the optimal interword spacing before applying
> adjustments to lettershapes and taking other steps to increase or decrease
> the actual width taken by the text so that the final interword space
> becomes uniform. it's the variant lettershapes that are a major
> contribution from zapf, and i believe the other tactics were invented
> jointly by zapf and karow.
> 
> but so far this system works for text only. peter has said that he has
> some ideas for re-integrating math, but it's not trivial, and he hasn't
> had much time to spend on this for several years.
>
> [...] recent paper (december 1997) describing "chapter justification",
> which is a logical extension, on a page/chapter level, to the best-fit
> paragraph of tex or the hz engine.
>

In article <url:news:address@hidden> Thierry
Bouche <url:mailto:address@hidden> wrote:

> [...] if tex had some impact on hz, hz could have some impact on tex, the
> next feature developped in pdftex will be the use of Multiple masters
> fonts with a width axis in pdftex to enhance evenness of the color in
> justified text.
>

bye.

-- 
Aslak Raanes