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Old 05-23-2009, 05:14 PM   #47
ahi
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LaTeX's "good enough" typesetting and hyphenation fails to find an optimal solution to typesetting a given paragraph precisely 270 times in this 80 page (when typeset for a 6 inch page) eBook I am presently working on.

Fails, as in, it looks worse than Harry's blatantly computer-typeset text... fails until I, in the role of the typesetter, tell it what the hell to do. Once that is done, it will look spectacular.

Technology is not a form of magic, JSWolf. What's more, the limitations of specific pieces of technology are eminently knowable/discoverable... as long as one cares to know/discover them.

Of course, doing so can lead to inconvenient conclusions.

- Ahi
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