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Loosening content for printing
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The role of functions placed in loosen.c is rearranging the printed content in
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such a way that it will fit in the page width. The methods were chosen
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according to the look of different pages after applying them, not on the base of
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any standards.
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Loosening passes
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The page content is loosened in three passes. The next pass is applied only
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if the previous didn't give a satisfying result. The later a pass is applied
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the bigger interference in the page arrengement it means.
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In the first pass the changes are applied to those elements which don't have
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a chance to get entirely into the visibile scope of width - words which are
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too long for the available page width, objects positioned beyond the page
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borders and objects to big to fit a page.
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The second pass handles too big tables. The tables can be divided into two kinds
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- those responsible for page layout and those used only for holding data. For
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both of them some routines are used. Text in the cells is shrunken and broken,
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if this doesn't help the table cells are changed into inline containers as the
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table is problably a layout one.
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The third pass removes all margins and paddings. This saves a lot of space but
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makes also the page much less readable, for this reason it is the last step of
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loosening.
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