There is hope that/ongoing research into the algorithm (so that it) will be extended beyond the paragraph/page and will allow the sort of optimizations/adjustme

There is hope that/ongoing research into the algorithm (so that it) will be extended beyond the paragraph/page and will allow the sort of optimizations/adjustments which are necessary. In almost 4 decades of typesetting, I've had a chapter come out exactly right, requiring no adjustment exactly _once_ (fastest 40 minutes of my life) --- the usual approach is after: - importing the text and all the images, paging everything with the defaults one has to: - check the last page --- is it reasonably full? is the page which it is ending on acceptable --- would it be better to gain or lose a page? - from the beginning, check each image/table --- where do they fall relative to the first reference? What needs to move to what page? Make gross adjustments to make that happen where possible (resizing images/tables/tweaking placement, if the book design allows, change image/table type/appearance to adjust things - see where one falls at the end of the chapter --- last page full enough? Would it be desirable to gain/lose a page? - go back to the beginning, begin fine tuning each page/spread --- are there any paragraphs which don't look nice? (setting too tight/loose, rivers, stacks, &c., adjust as needed), do the bottom lines line up? adjust paragraph specs/image size to make them line up (keeping in mind if one wants to gain/lose a page) --- do this for each page/spread - check the last page --- repeat any of the above adjustments as necessary --- sometimes, while one might want to gain a page, a tighter setting losing a page looks sufficiently better that it's worth un-doing all the tweaking an re-setting thus