Re: What about these?

Juan R. wrote:

For typesetting on fixed layout using predefined font metrics? Sure (if
one agrees on TeX conventions).

For actually doing a decent job of breaking lines automatically,
respecting hundreds of years of experience in how this should be done.
No other system I know of does as good a job (and if they do I bet they
use TeX's way of doing it).


For liquid layouts or usage of arbitrary non-TeX fonts? TeX does not
work.

Well, yes, you do need to tell it about the metrics. But, well, what
did you expect to be the case?

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