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A large amount of and spans with letter-spacing or font-kerning can help, but no one’s going to do that (unless you go for an extremely fixed layout or e
by strogonoff 3y ago
A large amount of and spans with letter-spacing or font-kerning can help, but no one’s going to do that (unless you go for an extremely fixed layout or engage JavaScript, which I would consider in poor taste for these purposes).
I concur on the warm fuzzy blanket of DTP software, personally.
- dylan604 3y agoexactly. that sounds like a pretty good description of hell to me. i much prefer highlighting the text, alt/option-left/right to adjust the kerning in real time. this type of description of using CSS for DTP reminds me of using tables for layout before CSS. it was a bullshit solution waiting for something better. only, in this case, DTP software is already there and better. so why would someone do this to themselves?
- strogonoff 3y agoI imagine to avoid paying expensive license fees, to stick with OSS out of principle, and/or to implement various fun integrations.
- dylan604 3y agooh to be young and a dreamer. now, i just want to get work done with the most efficient tool for the job. that kind of hell is for the young
- strogonoff 3y agoI just worry that the growing generations don’t degrade typesetting quality too much… Not that it’s particularly stellar in the mainstream, but I sure hope it wouldn’t get even worse!
- dylan604 3y agoLuckily for the younger generations, there's no text to typeset in a tiktok video. It's not like they are reading text anyways. Everything now is a TL;DR or some other summary in short tweet like blurbs which may or may not even be a complete sentence. Any post with extra text providing the background or finer details is lambasted as being too wordy.
- cxr 3y ago[dead]