Re: Debunking a myth: Knuth-Plass as a silver bullet for widow/orphan management

Andreas Eder via discussion of the GNU roff typesetting system and related software <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
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On Do 06 Aug 2026 at 20:58, G. Branden Robinson wrote:

> I give you the P3846 paper, which looks for all the world like it was
> formatted with TeX.  An assumption: I didn't contact the authors to ask
> for their document's source.[2]  TeX, of course, employs Knuth-Plass.

If you look at the pdf meta data it says:

Title:
Subject:
Keywords:
Author:
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CreationDate:    Mon Oct  6 17:30:18 2025 CEST
ModDate:         Mon Oct  6 17:30:18 2025 CEST
Custom Metadata: yes
Metadata Stream: no
Tagged:          no
UserProperties:  no
Suspects:        no
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PDF version:     1.5

The current pdftex version is 1.40.29, so given the CreationDate it was
probably the current version at the time.

'Andreas

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