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This is the second or third article on the difficulty of line breaking I've read on HN just this week. Why aren't there any good *exhaustive* tome on the art of
by checker659 5y ago
This is the second or third article on the difficulty of line breaking I've read on HN just this week. Why aren't there any good *exhaustive* tome on the art of text editors / line breaking / text shaping / text rendering / text on the GPU etc. I'd pay good money.
- xarope 5y agois this /s, in reference to latex/knuth and the precursor to yak shaving?
- bombcar 5y agoThere’s not a single reference that I know of, at least not covering all aspects. An interesting place to start may be this PDF and it’s references: https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/CTAN/info/memdesign/memdesign.pdf https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/CTAN/info/memdesign/me... TeX famously does line breaking in a perhaps decent way - but it and text shaping become more of an art than a definite list of rules to follow.