Am I right that TeX processes text in a manner like this? Since the very first character it is forming an hbox
of textwidth
width. When the first hbox
is filled in its width, TeX makes a hyphenation, adds this hbox
to a vbox
(for a paragraph) and starts to form the second hbox
and so on. So the vbox
is like a holder for several hbox
'es (lines)? Is it like a vertical linked list of horizontal linked lists?
Below is an illustration of what I want to clarify. In the first line it makes an indent and hyphens as ma-chines. In the second one I tried to explicitly represent this. Does TeX do the same (ideologically)?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Computer science is the study of algorithmic processes, computational machines and computation itself.
\vbox{%
\hbox{\indent Computer science is the study of algorithmic processes, computational ma-}%
\hbox{chines and computation itself.}}
\end{document}