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   by sachac 6y ago

   It turned out that going with Org Mode was an excellent idea! I wrote another post about the changes I made last night: https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/06/having-fun-kerning-using-... Basically, tables rock,
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   by sachac 6y ago

   I figured out that if you use the : session keyword, you can still see the prints before the exception. I tend to use something like :session "argh".
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   by sachac 6y ago

   I think the built-in OTF support for contextual alternates still go by character pairs, so na na na will still look identical even if I can get ba na na to look slightly different. I can easily get SVG out of FontForge, though, and I'v
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   by sachac 6y ago

   One of the things I want to do is to use autotrace centerline to get a basic stroke trace, and then manually tweak it so that drawing the glyphs makes sense. Then I can use that for SVG animations (there are Javascript tutorials for that),
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   by sachac 6y ago

   The helpful poster wasn't me, but I should totally make the PDF link easier to get to. No one should ever need to give me their email address for stuff. :)
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   by sachac 6y ago

   Hah, it's not really reproducible at this point, but I was so excited that I didn't want to wait until I got everything sorted out. I spent a little time last night kerning even more (it's surprisingly fun), so if the kerning
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   by sachac 6y ago

   I tend to use print because it's easier for me to speed-read my sketchnotes that way, but I did come across a typography tutorial that explains how to do cursive connectors through variants. Maybe someday, if the kiddo starts learning
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   by sachac 6y ago

   Contextual alternates and ligatures are on my todo list! :) https://ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/punknova?lang=en is an interesting model.
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   by sachac 6y ago

   Oh! I should totally make a bold version instead of relying on the browser. Thanks to both of you for testing and troubleshooting! I'll do it later after the kiddo goes to bed. I'm excited about looking into alternate glyphs too.
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    by sachac 11y ago

    I've used artist-mode with my tablet PC, which works surprisingly well. You can draw with the stylus and everything! For other ways to produce graphics from text (especially within Emacs), check out the examples in http://do
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    by sachac 12y ago

    This is true! I've used keyboard macros with webpages and textareas to save myself lots of time. =)
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    by sachac 12y ago

    Thanks for working on this! I didn't send a patch because I have terrible colour sense and haven't bothered checking for light backgrounds. I figured you knew about defface and already had plans for that at some point. I haven&#x2
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    by sachac 13y ago

    I keep the month and year in my permalinks for that very reason. I want people to be able to get a sense, right away, of whether something is still likely to be valid. If I'm writing "evergreen" content or a page that's
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    by sachac 13y ago

    I used to use icomplete-mode (incremental completion for M-x), and now I use helm. Helm allows me to start typing "M-x buffer next" and see next-buffer and switch-to-next-buffer as the options. =)
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    by sachac 13y ago

    That's a pity, as I find it helps me to be open-minded about editors. =) Still, it's Creative Commons-licensed, so feel free to make a new version. (Or even a version with a blurred out or redacted section... =) )
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    by sachac 13y ago

    That's awesome! I hadn't come across Donald Alcock's books before, and I'm glad you recommended them. I've just ordered a copy of Illustrating C. Looking forward to being inspired by it!