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

[Robin Becker]

In article <5.2.1.1.0.20030422205047.00b95a20@www.thinkware.se>, Magnus
Lyckå <magnus@thinkware.se> writes
>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.

.... unfortunately I've already checked this implementation and it's
busted.

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>Magnus Lycka (It's really Lyck&aring;), magnus@thinkware.se
>Thinkware AB, Sweden, www.thinkware.se
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Robin Becker