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Have just skimmed it and this is a great intro to the weird and wonderful world of rendering text. It gets even more wild as you descend down into the myriad w
by aidos 3y ago
Have just skimmed it and this is a great intro to the weird and wonderful world of rendering text.
It gets even more wild as you descend down into the myriad ways this information is specified within fonts. For bonus points dig into how fonts are embedded within PDFs.
There’s definitely something wrong with me because I find the whole thing fascinating. Picking through the specs and existing open-source code feels more like an archaeological crusade than anything else.
- rizky05 3y ago[dead]
- rob74 3y agoI think this is true for most specs that are sufficiently old and sufficiently complex: there will be some parts that were specified, but never widely used, some parts that were once used, but are not relevant anymore, etc. etc. For an onlooker, these curiosities might seem fascinating. If you are setting out to implement the spec and don't have an infinite amount of time however, the multitude of corner cases, some important, some not (sometimes without an obvious way of distinguishing between the two) will get on your nerves pretty quickly...
- uncletaco 3y agoOne spec I've been diving into recently is emacs' skeleton auto typing engine. It has been in the codebase and documented for 30 years at this point but never saw widespread use. It was apparently was conceived as away to write not just snippets but also autoclose parenthesis and interactively fill in function or form data. I've been trying to figure out how I would go about using it as an alternative to tempel or yasnippet.