[reportlab-users] RE: Table sizing algorithms - comments welcome

Magnus Lyckå reportlab-users@reportlab.com
Tue, 22 Apr 2003 20:52:22 +0200


Robin Becker wrote:
>well as a matter of historical fact, the Knuth paragraph splitting
>algorithm has been working fairly reliably since the mid 70's, it's also
>one of the few algorithms with a prize for bug discovery. The fact that
>the current lead implementation is written in the awful way it is
>doesn't detract from its efficacy.

See http://oedipus.sourceforge.net/texlib/ for a Python implementation.


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