chrisecker

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by chrisecker 5mo ago
Fixed it. Thanks for reporting.
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by chrisecker 5mo ago
I have been able to install MiniWord under Windows. It is a bit more challenging. You should use cairocffi instead of pycairo: pip install cairocffi You also need to install the Cairo DLL. The easiest way is to install the full GTK3
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by chrisecker 5mo ago
I came from the TeX-Approach where all layout elements are boxes which contain other boxes. This box-tree is a kind of DOM if you want. But the box-tree only represents the layout, not the data itself. For the data you usually have a separa
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by chrisecker 5mo ago
When you want to develop cross platform apps which use the native widgets, there are not so many options. The two big players are qt and wx.
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by chrisecker 5mo ago
Yes, I can see what you mean: There are hand coded colors together with system colors. With the dark mode this gives white text on white background for the side panel. Thanks for mentioning.
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by chrisecker 5mo ago
Cursor positioning is simple. The layout is a tree of nested box. Each box knows the x,y-position of its children. There is also an index dimension which numbers possible cursor positions. A box lies from i1 to i2 in index space. You just i
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by chrisecker 5mo ago
Ropes are for strings. In a word processor you need text with formatting, and structures as tables, images and math.
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by chrisecker 5mo ago
My mistake. Now it works (on linux).
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by chrisecker 5mo ago
My apologies. I added the missing file.
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Show HN: A WYSIWYG word processor in Python(codeberg.org)
91 points by chrisecker 5mo ago|38 comments
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by chrisecker 6mo ago
Finding a good data structure for a word processor is a difficult problem. My notebook diaries on the problem go back to 2001 when I was frustrated with using Word, which was at that time slow and unstable. While ropes and piece tables are
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TexelTree – A data model for word processors(codeberg.org)
3 points by chrisecker 6mo ago|2 comments
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by chrisecker 6mo ago
You're right that hidden structure is often the cause of strange effects — but Group is not a document element in that sense. It's invisible at the index level too: when you iterate over the document by index, you pass through Gro
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Ask HN: Is there prior art for this rich text data model?
6 points by chrisecker 6mo ago|2 comments