Re: Gnome text subsystems

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek etf cuni cz>]

On 31 May 2000, Alan Shutko wrote:

: 
: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:
: 
: > Petr Tomasek <tomasek@etf.cuni.cz> writes:
: > 
: > > Well, I see one problem: TeX doesn't support stretching characters when
: > > justifiyng paragraphs/lines.
: > 
: > I believe the HZ algorighm (which I think does what you're talking
: > about) was implemented in pdftex, so one could check there.
: 
: I just happened to find some more information about this... check out
: http://www.pragma-ade.nl/samples.htm.  Thanh's thesis will be finished
: soon, so it's probably a good resource.

Well, I'm not sure whether I understand it well, but it seems to me, that
th HZ algorithm just stertches _all_ glyphs in the same ratio (on the same
line of course). What I was thinking of is a) having certain characters
various glyphs (with varying size) or b) beeing able to specify glyphs,
that may be stretched (e.g. old hebrew has 5 letters, that may be
strechted even with ratio 1:4 or similar :) 

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Petr Tomasek, http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/

Národ je od toho, abychom se měli za co stydět.