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This sounds exciting! (Though I must say, I am all but married to Org at this point.) On a different note though, I feel that Microsoft Word, and web browsers,

This sounds exciting! (Though I must say, I am all but married to Org at this point.) On a different note though, I feel that Microsoft Word, and web browsers, really do a terrible job at rendering text. Kerning is often bad, there are frequent widows and orphans, pagination is often a mess, hyphenation is laughable. These are real issues and they are not solved by a different markup language. So far, TeX and Indesign are the only software I know of that really manage to solve this problem. I would love to see a new export format that can deal with this. Maybe what we really need is a new middle ground: A kind of LLVM for text processing. An intermidiary machine format that serves as a target for all different kinds of markup languages that can be further compiled to beautifully rendered text in whatever format you desire.

bowerbird 13y ago
thanks! it's been so long, i lost my excitement. ;+) here's my kickstarter, one jump-off point: > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bowerbird/jaguar-cub-a-simple-tool-for-great-e-books http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bowerbird/jaguar-cub-a-s... got a working web-app there, as an appetite-whetter. * also just posted "markdown considered harmful", at: > https://medium.com/the-future-of-publishing/495ccfe24a52 https://medium.com/the-future-of-publishing/495ccfe24a52 needed to clear my plate / get that off my chest... * if you'd be so kind as to point to either of those, here at h.n. or elsewhere, i'd consider it an honor. (i have never been able to get any traction here; i guess i need to go see what the reddit kids say.) * i too am totally dissatisfied with web typography. it's atrocious. but a lot of the problems you note _can_ be corrected, such as widows, and pagination, if you adopt a mindset that considers it important. and i won't stop until i've created e-books that are _both_ highly functional _and_ very beautiful. anyway, thanks again. -bowerbird p.s. but i don't think we even need hyphenation now.

bowerbird 13y ago

thanks! it's been so long, i lost my excitement. ;+) here's my kickstarter, one jump-off point: > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bowerbird/jaguar-cub-a-simple-tool-for-great-e-books http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bowerbird/jaguar-cub-a-s... got a working web-app there, as an appetite-whetter. * also just posted "markdown considered harmful", at: > https://medium.com/the-future-of-publishing/495ccfe24a52 https://medium.com/the-future-of-publishing/495ccfe24a52 needed to clear my plate / get that off my chest... * if you'd be so kind as to point to either of those, here at h.n. or elsewhere, i'd consider it an honor. (i have never been able to get any traction here; i guess i need to go see what the reddit kids say.) * i too am totally dissatisfied with web typography. it's atrocious. but a lot of the problems you note _can_ be corrected, such as widows, and pagination, if you adopt a mindset that considers it important. and i won't stop until i've created e-books that are _both_ highly functional _and_ very beautiful. anyway, thanks again. -bowerbird p.s. but i don't think we even need hyphenation now.