Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Documentation on TeX 3.0 Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 90 09:59:22 GMT References: <1990Jun25.165048.4096@king.mcs.drexel.edu> <7631@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 35 In-reply-to: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu's message of 27 Jun 90 17:46:29 GMT In article <7631@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) writes: >any way, unless you typeset in languages other than american english ^^^^^^^^ (more smug britishness? :-) garn - cobblers, Don! it was just an observation that American is not English (as opposed to english). find that TeX 3.0 has dramatically changed my life. Since I've started using TeX 3.0, I've been promoted, have won the lottery, am constantly hounded by fabulous babes, and my shirts come back I don't know about the babes (we don't have them in England, our only babes are in cots), but the thing that has made most difference to my life in the last year is Mittelbach and Schoepf's font selection macros. I haven't consciously used 3.0's features at all, since I had multi-language hyphenation anyway, courtesy of the Finnish hacks. - TeX now has a parameter \emergencystretch, which allows better setting of difficult paragraphs (if TeX can't do a good job setting the paragraph, it tries inserting maybe I will concede this one - I can check the \badness of the last box constructed. come on, give us an example... - I can get the input line number (I haven't found a use for this yet. quite sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)