Breaking Paragraphs into Lines¶
Knuth, D. E., & Plass, M. F. (1981). Breaking Paragraphs into Lines. Software: Practice and Experience, 11(11), 1119-1184.
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Domain-specific¶
- Knuth–Plass Line-Breaking Algorithm
- … boxes, glue, and penalties: fixed-width boxes hold material that the breaker treats as indivisible; glue has a natural width plus declared stretch and shrink; and penalties encode discretionary, discouraged, encouraged, inhibited, or forced breaks, including any width inserted only when a break is taken.
This sourceDefines paragraph-wide boxes/glue/penalties line breaking, dynamic programming, ragged-right adaptation, and the hyphenation boundary. Verified 2026-08-26.
- … boxes, glue, and penalties: fixed-width boxes hold material that the breaker treats as indivisible; glue has a natural width plus declared stretch and shrink; and penalties encode discretionary, discouraged, encouraged, inhibited, or forced breaks, including any width inserted only when a break is taken.
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