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From: freek@fwi.uva.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
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Subject: Re: Why does Mac output not look as good as LaTex?
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Date: 23 May 91 19:21:52 GMT
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rolfl@hedda.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
>There is one additional reason why Mac output doesn't look as good as LaTeX:
>When figuring line breaks, TeX takes the entire paragraph into account, while
>word processors (usually, traditionlly, etc.) only consider the previous line.
>So a LaTeX paragraph will almost always be better adjusted.  The algorithm that
>does this is quite simple, and could well, I suppose, be implemented in a word
>processor.    

Do PageMaker and/or QuarkXPress offer this algorithm?

Freek "the Pistol Major" Wiedijk                      E-mail: freek@fwi.uva.nl
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