Mukul wrote:
Are FO
implementation free to use TeX or possibly other
typesetting standards?
Yes. The details of line breaking and hyphenation are implementation
dependent.
For example, a more sophisticated processor might be better at detecting
and eliminating rivers and ladders than another. This is one area where
two otherwise equivalent FO implementations might differ. There is a
also a performance cost to doing more sophisticated line breaking, so
different implementations may take different approaches in order to
achieve different combinations of performance and rendition quality--if
you're rendering invoices you probably don't care so much about the
aesthetics of text layout but you may care about performance, but if
you're producing books or magazines, you probably care very much about
it and may be willing to accept slower processing in order to get it.
Cheers,
E.
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