From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-01-03T11:31:45+09:00
Subject: Re: text/format loops on long words

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 03:21:09 +0900, Wybo Dekker <wybo@servalys.nl> wrote:
> This hangs, and it has to do with the last two words in the text to be
> too long (make columns 1 larger or body_indent 1 less and it works):
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> require 'text/format'
> require 'tex/hyphen'
> 
> puts Text::Format.new(
>     :body_indent  => 15,
>     :columns      => 30,
>     :hyphenator   => TeX::Hyphen.new,
>     :split_rules  => Text::Format::SPLIT_HYPHENATION,
>     :hard_margins => true,
>     :text         => "something pancakes electroencephalogram"
> ).paragraphs
> 
> I hope Austin Ziegler is looking...

I will look at this later this week. I am just back from a wonderful
vacation on the beaches of Cuba (got my hair braided and a wonderful
New Year's tan, thanks :) and still have to finish rebuilding my main
development computer after a catastrophic hard drive crash (I haven't
yet installed Ruby on the machine, but it has finally been downloaded;
I just need to get the Windows build environment(s) set up that I will
be using).

My plan as I get back into the swing of things is to address
Text::Format. In the interim, can you test with Text::Hyphen instead
of TeX::Hyphen? The hyphenation rules in Text::Hyphen for English are
a little more up-to-date, although this may not help. I will try to
figure this out and form it into a test case and fix the problem as I
put Text::Format 1.0.0 together.

For those people who are using Text::Format, I have a very important
question -- more people are using it than I had realised ;) I want to
change the initialisation idiom from the current "anything goes" to
either the form you presented or the currently-preferred
initialisation block that yields self (rather than using
instance_eval).

Are you okay if I make this change in Text::Format, or should I follow
the concepts of TeX::Hyphen � Text::Hyphen and make this Text::Format
� Text::Formatter?

-austin
-- 
Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca