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‘Le siècle des Lumières [plural] … Le terme de «Lumières» a été consacré par l’usage pour rassembler la diversité des manifestations de cet ensemble d’objets [la superstition, l’in…

alphabetical sort != numerical sort Developers take note: Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA)… As discussed on https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/unicode-collation-to-alphabeti...

Great work! I’d love to see added a stub for graphics, image processing, and computer vision!

Punctuation is a challenge. To electronically type-write modern Ethiopic languages (like Amharic) in Ge’ez script the regular (Western) word space (U+0020) is used as a word bounda…

With over 600 “fidäls” (graphemes) a fascinating syllabary for sure! While today the Ge’ez language indeed is used in liturgy only, the script is still used by dozens of East-Afric…

That metaphor is deliberate? — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola#Ride_the_Tiger

The patent holder appears to be an unidentified pseudonym: https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Hendricus-G-Loos > “All devices are used for Mind Control projects run by CIA or other intel…

That Netscape screenshot only shows users have always been able to specify their own font preferences for three generic font families (serif, sans-serif, mono), along with a respec…

Sure. Badly produced fonts (those you can find on the cheap), tend to have faulty metrics: i.e. the designer did not change the default ones of the font design app (Glyphs, FontLab…

> “monospace fonts tend to be wider, so the default font size (medium) is scaled so that they have similar widths” > “the base size depends on the font family and the language … De…

Thanks! Liked your Open-Publisher, too! Did you subscribe to our waiting list (Textus.io)? If so, I could give you beta access right away.

Today, 18 July 2017, is Jane Austen’s bicentenary. Just the perfect day to showcase our product: Textus, a typesetting engine in the cloud. Generating all of Jane Austen’s Collecte…

Nope, it’s everyone! Well, perfect timing: it went down just six seconds after we submitted our latest repo to Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14800791 :-/ Anyway, th…

That mysterious font actually is an adaptation of one of the oldest typefaces around specifically designed for optical character recognition. OCR-B (1968), by Adrian Frutiger. It’s…

tl;dr: ‘… I am convinced that “translating” Euclid into modern algebraic notation is historically destructive … In writing the Illustrated Theory of Numbers, I am trying to give re…

Looking for something like GeoGebra†, but usable on the Web, I came across this JavaScript library (which depends on d3.js to draw the SVGs). It’s available for Node on npm‡. What …

Depends on what you want to achieve? When diffing source code, comparing lines, without caring too much about the broader context, may be a good-enough proxy of what you ideally wa…

The library (Common Lisp) is on Github: https://github.com/gigamonkey/monkeylib-prose-diff