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End-to-End Tour of Text Layout/Rendering (2015)

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Re: End-to-End Tour of Text Layout/Rendering (2015)

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Post by favorited »

I really enjoyed this author's "Complex Text Handling in WebKit" series from a few years back. They're spread over several months on the blog, so here are the direct links to each part, if anyone is interested:

Part 1: Encoding Systems, Code Points, and Code Units https://litherum.blogspot.com/2013/11/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 2: Fonts https://litherum.blogspot.com/2013/11/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 3: Codepoint to Glyph Mapping https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/02/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 4: Line Breaking https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/04/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 5: Bidirectional Processing https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/11/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 6: Run Layout https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/11/complex-text-handling-...>

Part 7: Width Calculations https://litherum.blogspot.com/2014/11/complex-text-handling-...>

Re: End-to-End Tour of Text Layout/Rendering (2015)

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Post by jll29 »

This reads well and might have been called "when plain text meets bitmapped graphics output devices". There's a fair amount of Internationalization (I18N) knowledge required in the process, some of which is mentioned in passing.

Someone ought to write a companion post for keyboard input entry (including topics like input methods for Asian languages, bi-directional (BiDi) writing/editing order e.g. of semitic languages, various common keyboard layouts etc.).

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