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Re: Butterick’s Practical Typography 2º Edition

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Post by neolog » Tue, Apr 06, 2021, 3:04 AM UTC

dhosek wrote: post #48

neolog wrote: post #23

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Is there a morpheme-aware version?

Yes, with different patterns it's possible and the en-gb patterns do this (see https://www.tug.org/tex-hyphen/ ). Morpheme-aware hyphenation does have some oddities, though, like hyphenating helicopter as helico-pter.

I saw your webpage on programming language choice, but I couldn't figure out how to use the comment box. So here's my comment.

Rust seems like a good candidate. The runebender/druid/xi project has an active chatroom [1] full of people [2,3,...] with deep expertise in typesetting, text rendering, etc.

[1] https://xi.zulipchat.com/ [2] https://raphlinus.github.io/ [3] https://joy.recurse.com/~cmyr

Re: Butterick’s Practical Typography 2º Edition

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Post by dhosek » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 4:02 AM UTC

neolog wrote: post #51

dhosek wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, with different patterns it's possible and the en-gb patterns do this (see https://www.tug.org/tex-hyphen/ ). Morpheme-aware hyphenation does have some oddities, though, like hyphenating helicopter as helico-pter.

I saw your webpage on programming language choice, but I couldn't figure out how to use the comment box. So here's my comment. Rust seems like a good candidate. The runebender/druid/xi project has an active chatroom [1] full of people [2,3,...] with deep expertise in typesetting, text rendering, etc. [1] https://xi.zulipchat.com/ [2] https://raphlinus.github.io/ [3] https://joy.recurse.com/~cmyr

I'm not sure why there was a problem with comments for you—it looks like it's correct for me, although no one else has commented so there might be an issue.

Rust is intriguing and it looks like some of the issues that are of concern to me are addressed by it (cross-platform, ability to target iOS and JNI)... I'll have to investigate a bit more. If it's got a good PDF writing library I may have a winner, although C++ does offer some really solid abilities with ICU and harfbuzz that appeal to me.

Re: Butterick’s Practical Typography 2º Edition

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Post by dhosek » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 4:08 AM UTC

neolog wrote: post #51

dhosek wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, with different patterns it's possible and the en-gb patterns do this (see https://www.tug.org/tex-hyphen/ ). Morpheme-aware hyphenation does have some oddities, though, like hyphenating helicopter as helico-pter.

I saw your webpage on programming language choice, but I couldn't figure out how to use the comment box. So here's my comment. Rust seems like a good candidate. The runebender/druid/xi project has an active chatroom [1] full of people [2,3,...] with deep expertise in typesetting, text rendering, etc. [1] https://xi.zulipchat.com/ [2] https://raphlinus.github.io/ [3] https://joy.recurse.com/~cmyr

Certainly, the pain around library usage in C++ is something that would be nice to be able to avoid. A quick google search has turned up Rust bindings for harfbuzz and the print_pdf library (the latter would be superior to dealing with the scant open source C/C++ options most of which seem to have lost their primary maintainers).

Re: Butterick’s Practical Typography 2º Edition

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Post by neolog » Wed, Apr 07, 2021, 11:23 PM UTC

dhosek wrote: post #52

neolog wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw your webpage on programming language choice, but I couldn't figure out how to use the comment box. So here's my comment. Rust seems like a good candidate. The runebender/druid/xi project has an active chatroom [1] full of people [2,3,...] with deep expertise in typesetting, text rendering, etc. [1] https://xi.zulipchat.com/ [2] https://raphlinus.github.io/ [3] https://joy.recurse.com/~cmyr

I'm not sure why there was a problem with comments for you—it looks like it's correct for me, although no one else has commented so there might be an issue. Rust is intriguing and it looks like some of the issues that are of concern to me are addressed by it (cross-platform, ability to target iOS and JNI)... I'll have to investigate a bit more. If it's got a good PDF writing library I may have a winner, although C++…

I couldn't figure out what all the boxes were for or why the big box truncated my comment at around 20 characters.