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

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Sun, 9 Aug 2026 05:33:05 -0500

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At 2026-08-08T15:28:10+0200, Andreas Eder via discussion of the GNU roff
typesetting system and related software wrote:
> 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:
> Creator:         LaTeX with hyperref
> Producer:        pdfTeX-1.40.26
> 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
> Form:            none
> JavaScript:      no
> Pages:           42
> Encrypted:       no
> Page size:       612 x 792 pts (letter)
> Page rot:        0
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> Optimized:       no
> 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.

Thanks!  Better to be embarrassed on account of my laziness than my
incorrect surmise!

I think... 8-O

Regards,
Branden

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