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This is a great opportunity to extol the superior text layout capabilities of Latex. In your third pdf [1], look at page 2, para starting from "No doubt...". Co

This is a great opportunity to extol the superior text layout capabilities of Latex. In your third pdf [1], look at page 2, para starting from "No doubt...". Compare to the same rendered in plain latex [2]. Two problems that jump immediately. * There are six word breaks in your pdf, zero in the latex version. (well, good-nature is a compound word in the original text). * Notice the "river" [3] of spaces that runs downs from "Enfield" I have no idea why other fixed layout engines don't adopt the superior text-layout algorithms of latex. [1] https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdown-part-8/jekyll-hyde.pdf https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow... [2] https://i.imgur.com/Rs7ai0G.png https://i.imgur.com/Rs7ai0G.png [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)

thangalin 3y ago
> There are six word breaks in your pdf, zero in the latex version. (well, good-nature is a compound word in the original text). I use ConTeXt. ConTeXt uses the same Knuth-Plass algorithm for line breaks as LaTeX. I've allowed ConTeXt to hyphenate liberally. There is a setting to control hyphenation. See lesshyphenation, morehyphenation: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupalign https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupalign > Notice the "river" [3] of spaces that runs downs from "Enfield" ConTeXt probably has tweaks for this as well. Keep in mind, I typeset Jekyll and Hyde in 2020 and am not a ConTeXt expert; ConTeXt has had countless improvements since then. > adopt the superior text-layout algorithms of latex Pretty sure ConTeXt is capable of producing the same quality of document as LaTeX. * https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Documentation https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Documentation * https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36/differences-between-luatex-context-and-xetex https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36/differences-betwe... * https://tug.org/levels.html https://tug.org/levels.html

thangalin 3y ago

> There are six word breaks in your pdf, zero in the latex version. (well, good-nature is a compound word in the original text). I use ConTeXt. ConTeXt uses the same Knuth-Plass algorithm for line breaks as LaTeX. I've allowed ConTeXt to hyphenate liberally. There is a setting to control hyphenation. See lesshyphenation, morehyphenation: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupalign https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupalign > Notice the "river" [3] of spaces that runs downs from "Enfield" ConTeXt probably has tweaks for this as well. Keep in mind, I typeset Jekyll and Hyde in 2020 and am not a ConTeXt expert; ConTeXt has had countless improvements since then. > adopt the superior text-layout algorithms of latex Pretty sure ConTeXt is capable of producing the same quality of document as LaTeX. * https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Documentation https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Documentation * https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36/differences-between-luatex-context-and-xetex https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36/differences-betwe... * https://tug.org/levels.html https://tug.org/levels.html