<div dir="ltr">We do that ALL the time, not on lines on a poster, but with lines on<div>Bibliographies.<div><div><br></div><div>It used to be an extremely cumbersome and expensive procedure</div><div>during BibTeX times, when TeX did not know the language it was </div><div>typesetting a bibliography entry. It got infinitely better with BibLaTeX.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Of course, it is possible to annotate the XML with inter-word and inter-</div><div>character spacing information, but it is plain NOT done, most likely</div><div>because of the costs involved.</div><div><br></div><div>Just open the Bibliography of an Elsevier published article processed</div><div>with TeX, especially the ones with two columns, it is absolutely awful,</div><div>with absurd spacing in the wrong places and incorrect hyphenation</div><div>of words. It does look like they have the command \sloppy at the start</div><div>of every Biblio and hyphenate everything in English no matter what</div><div>is written in the text.</div><div><br></div><div>I am publishing a book with one of the big publishers and it has been </div><div>converted to XML. At every complaint of a bad line break or wrong </div><div>hyphenation they take a week to respond and, in general, with another </div><div>bad line-break or hyphenation caused by the previous fix.</div><div><br></div><div>Kaveh, if you know an efficient and inexpensive way to do this, you </div><div>could probably teach us because this is probably holding up the adoption</div><div>of XML as a source, by authors. What about a talk at TUG'24?</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:23 PM William F Hammond <<a href="mailto:hmwlfsr@yahoo.com">hmwlfsr@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I ended my last message with this:<br>
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But if I want to be fussy about typesetting I will use<br>
regular LaTeX.<br>
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Speaking about fussy typesetting, one case is that of a long<br>
paragraph in a public poster on a wall (with suitably large<br>
fonts). I think it desirable to have both left and right<br>
flush margins and no line-ending hyphens. Usually, though<br>
not always, I can tease that out of LaTeX with micro<br>
adjustments to line width. Failing that, I may need to make<br>
manual adjustments to the inter-word spaces in a few lines.<br>
But is there a package that attempts to do this?<br>
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