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• Phil Perry commented on Greed is good, balance is better, beauty is best.

  There are some major problems with the last "Winter of our discontent" soliloquy. It is full of "stacks", which are the same word (or similar) repeated at the beginning at least once on following lines. Here we have two adjacent lines starting with "the" and four with "our". This makes is difficult for the eye to properly track when scanning back to the beginning to pick up the next line (the reader ends up on the wrong line). The same problem can arise with a stack at the end of a line. The cost function would need to be expanded to penalize repeated words…

• Phil Perry commented on Greed is good, balance is better, beauty is best.

  I must also comment on your use of the terms "widow" and "orphan". Those are not the standard definitions that I've seen used by other authorities. An orphan is "born alone" (first line of the paragraph is on one page or column, and the remainder is on the next page or column). A widow "dies alone", with the last line of a paragraph on the next page or column. Related, it is very undesirable to hyphenate the last word in a column, as the reader has to remember more moving to the next page or column. A cub is the isolated last word of the paragraph…

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