Not off-topic: Wrong couple divorced after computer error by law firm Vardag's

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

We do that ALL the time, not on lines on a poster, but with lines on
Bibliographies.

It used to be an extremely cumbersome and expensive procedure
during BibTeX times, when TeX did not know the language it was
typesetting a bibliography entry. It got infinitely better with BibLaTeX.

Of course, it is possible to annotate the XML with inter-word and inter-
character spacing information, but it is plain NOT done, most likely
because of the costs involved.

Just open the Bibliography of an Elsevier published article processed
with TeX, especially the ones with two columns, it is absolutely awful,
with absurd spacing in the wrong places and incorrect hyphenation
of words. It does look like they have the command \sloppy at the start
of every Biblio and hyphenate everything in English no matter what
is written in the text.

I am publishing a book with one of the big publishers and it has been
converted to XML. At every complaint of a bad line break or wrong
hyphenation they take a week to respond and, in general, with another
bad line-break or hyphenation caused by the previous fix.

Kaveh, if you know an efficient and inexpensive way to do this, you
could probably teach us because this is probably holding up the adoption
of XML as a source, by authors. What about a talk at TUG'24?

Paulo Ney


On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:23 PM William F Hammond <hmwlfsr at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I ended my last message with this:
>
>     But if I want to be fussy about typesetting I will use
>     regular LaTeX.
>
> Speaking about fussy typesetting, one case is that of a long
> paragraph in a public poster on a wall (with suitably large
> fonts).  I think it desirable to have both left and right
> flush margins and no line-ending hyphens.  Usually, though
> not always, I can tease that out of LaTeX with micro
> adjustments to line width.  Failing that, I may need to make
> manual adjustments to the inter-word spaces in a few lines.
> But is there a package that attempts to do this?
>
>           -- Bill
>
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/william.f.hammond
> http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/
>
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>
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