From: Wybo Dekker <wybo@...>
Date: 2005-01-04T08:58:27+09:00
Subject: Re: text/format loops on long words

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On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> 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):
> >=20
> > #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> > require 'text/format'
> > require 'tex/hyphen'
> >=20
> > puts Text::Format.new(
> >     :body_indent  =3D> 15,
> >     :columns      =3D> 30,
> >     :hyphenator   =3D> TeX::Hyphen.new,
> >     :split_rules  =3D> Text::Format::SPLIT_HYPHENATION,
> >     :hard_margins =3D> true,
> >     :text         =3D> "something pancakes electroencephalogram"
> > ).paragraphs
> >=20
> > I hope Austin Ziegler is looking...
>=20
> 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 :)

missed your picture attached ;-((

> 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).
>=20
> 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.

Text::Hyphen has the same problem. But I don't think it has to do with
the hyphenation algorithm. It's independent of the words used, only on
their lengths.=20
=20
> 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).
>=20
> Are you okay if I make this change in Text::Format, or should I follow
> the concepts of TeX::Hyphen =BB Text::Hyphen and make this Text::Format
> =BB Text::Formatter?
>=20
> -austin
>=20

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Wybo
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