Change penalties to non-negative numbers #424
Merged
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
The optimization problem solved by the optimal-fit algorithm is fundamentally an optimization problem where we seek to minimize a penalty cost. It is therefore not sensible to allow negative penalties since all penalties are there to discourage certain features:
nline_penalty
discourages breaks with more lines than necessary,overflow_penalty
discourages lines longer than the line width,short_last_line_penalty
discourages short last lines,hyphen_penalty
discourages hyphenationMaking this change surfaces the overflow bug behind #247 and #416. This will be fixed next via #421 and this commit can be seen as a way of simplifying that PR.