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by bramstein 10mo ago
Would love to hear or read more about this if it is public.
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Webfont Handbook: Make the web a more efficient and readable environment(abookapart.com)
2 points by bramstein 9y ago|0 comments
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Web Font Anti-Patterns(bramstein.com)
1 points by bramstein 11y ago|0 comments
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by bramstein 11y ago
You can, but then you're limited to a single font format and you would not gain any benefits from the browsers' ability to download in parallel. A lot of this will improve when HTTP/2 becomes more common (you can push resourc
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by bramstein 11y ago
There are several hacks. Almost all of them rely on using JavaScript to make a XMLHttpRequest to retrieve font data. This will force the browser to load the fonts earlier by working around the normal @font-face loading mechanism. Because yo
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Preload Hints for Web Fonts(bramstein.com)
17 points by bramstein 11y ago|9 comments
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Detecting system fonts without Flash(bramstein.com)
4 points by bramstein 11y ago|0 comments
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by bramstein 14y ago
I agree, hyphenation is crucial to proper line breaking. If you don't mind a JavaScript solution you can have a look at: * http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/ * https://github.com/bramstein/hypher/
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by bramstein 14y ago
My colleague Tim Brown maintains a website containing links to all sorts of web typography resources: http://nicewebtype.com/
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by bramstein 14y ago
As mentioned above, Knuth's algorithms are implemented in many professional typesetting and layout applications. I think the people implementing those applications have great respect for Knuth (and Plass.) My impression is that the users of
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by bramstein 14y ago
I'm not totally sure, but I think the linear time papers I've read sacrifice some of the aspects of the original Knuth and Plass algorithm. I think some of those are going to be necessary to properly implement the Knuth and Plass algorithm
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by bramstein 14y ago
I'm really excited about this. While it is not the Knuth and Plass algorithm, it takes one of the nice features of it and proposes a simple algorithm to implement it. Implementing it should only be a minor adjustment to the text layout algo
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by bramstein 15y ago
I've been maintaining a jQuery plugin for the text-overflow property for a while. It works well in most cases: http://www.bramstein.com/projects/text-overflow/ You can see a test page here, which only works in Firefox due to the feature d
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by bramstein 15y ago
Author of the JS implementation here. Let me know if you have any questions about the implementation or problems integrating it. I was hoping someone would pick it up and integrate it with Readability-like service. (I've slowly been working
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by bramstein 16y ago
Thanks for the reference. I have also recently released my own JavaScript hyphenation engine: https://github.com/bramstein/Hypher It is quite small and fast, and mostly aimed at integration with other libraries, unlike Hyphenator.js (whic
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by bramstein 16y ago
I had a look at the problem and it seems to be related to the page transition animations (the amount of flicker seems corresponds to the animation steps.) I've created a ticket for this issue: https://github.com/Treesaver/treesaver/issues/
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by bramstein 16y ago
That looks like a bug, I've created a ticket for this issue: https://github.com/Treesaver/treesaver/issues#issue/147 Thanks for catching and reporting it.
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by bramstein 16y ago
I would also highly recommend "Digital Typography" by Knuth. It contains a more detailed description of the algorithm as well as many interesting historical and technical chapters on TeX, MetaFont and computer typesetting in general.
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by bramstein 16y ago
It is the whole paragraph as far as I can tell (I haven't seen the internals, just the output.)
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by bramstein 16y ago
As far as I know, this is the only implementation in JavaScript. It might be possible to turn this into a jQuery plugin at some point, but there are probably quite a couple of bugfixes and changes needed to turn this from a tech demo into a
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by bramstein 16y ago
Internet Explorer actually has this through the (almost standardized) text-justify CSS property. It still doesn't do hyphenation, but Hyphenator.js ( http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/ ) fills that gap pretty nicely. Performance isn't a g
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by bramstein 16y ago
I have the same Chrome version, but I'm running Ubuntu. Perhaps it is a font issue. I will check it out later when I have access to a Mac. Thanks for reporting.
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by bramstein 16y ago
You probably could get it working, but the implementation isn't (yet) capable of dealing with arbitrary HTML. It only expects paragraphs and images. This is only a matter of implementation though, the core algorithm should be able to deal w
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by bramstein 16y ago
I honestly hadn't thought about printing it out yet. I had a quick look, and I think the issues you are seeing can probably be fixed. My initial plan was to render PDFs server-side, instead of relying on the browser's print mode.
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by bramstein 16y ago
Zooming is problematic, I haven't quite figured out a reliable way of fixing it yet. The problem is most apparent in Webkit based browsers, Firefox seems to handle it much better (though there are still some small problems--most can be fixe
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by bramstein 16y ago
That's probably a bug, what browser and operating system are you using?
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by bramstein 16y ago
If you're bothered by rivers and lack of hyphenation, check out a project I worked on a while ago, which implements the Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm in JavaScript. Combined with Hyphenator.js, the results are nearly indistinguish
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by bramstein 16y ago
Very interesting. Are you also planning to go after the eBook market? On the technical side: are things like hyphenation and justification also on your todo/feature list? I've been thinking about putting my work on justification and hyphena
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by bramstein 16y ago
I played with the same idea a couple of years ago and published a library for it: * http://www.bramstein.com/projects/jfun/ * http://www.bramstein.com/articles/pattern-matching.html * http://www.bramstein.com/articles/advanced-pattern
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by bramstein 16y ago
You hit the nail on the head. The library is meant for applications that can not use CSS layout, because the algorithm they need is not possible in CSS, or because they are rendering to a context that does not have layout management such as

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