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by rhythmvs 8y ago
‘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’intolérance, l’abus des Églises et des États].’ (fr.wikipedia.
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by rhythmvs 8y ago
alphabetical sort != numerical sort Developers take note: Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA)… As discussed on https://forum.glyphsapp.com/t/unicode-collation-to-alphabeti...
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All Unicode chars sorted alphabetically [slow page render](gist.github.com)
8 points by rhythmvs 8y ago|4 comments
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
Great work! I’d love to see added a stub for graphics, image processing, and computer vision!
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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 boundary. Properly typesetting classical Ge’ez however requires us
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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-African languages (with up to about 60 million potential users).
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
That metaphor is deliberate? — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Evola#Ride_the_Tiger
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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 intelligence agencies. A group of researchers
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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 respective font-size. I’m not objecting to that: in fact, it’s a G
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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, FontForge, &c.) they are using so as to match the actu
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
> “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 … Default system fonts are often really ugly for non-Latin
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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.
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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 Collected Works from scratch (i.e. plain text markdown) into beautif
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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, the output of the source on Github is he
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Show HN: Jane Austen’s books for free as beautiful online editions and PDFs(github.com)
11 points by rhythmvs 9y ago|3 comments
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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 used everywhere still, on credit cards, wire transfer forms
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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 respect to history. … In the style of Tufte …’ Do check out th
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Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2012–…) [book, work-in-progress](illustratedtheoryofnumbers.wordpress.com)
1 points by rhythmvs 9y ago|1 comments
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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 I especially like is the simple, declarative syntax, allowin
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Euclidean geometry in JavaScript(euclid.js.org)
1 points by rhythmvs 9y ago|1 comments
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
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 want to compare, which is the program’s logic. But for the lat
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by rhythmvs 9y ago
The library (Common Lisp) is on Github: https://github.com/gigamonkey/monkeylib-prose-diff
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Diff optimized for comparing text files containing prose(gigamonkeys.com)
2 points by rhythmvs 9y ago|2 comments
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Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics [pdf](unicode.org)
2 points by rhythmvs 9y ago|0 comments
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by rhythmvs 10y ago
Yes we did, and they promised a completely paperless workflow, relying on Dropbox for upload of raw documents (invoices, bank and credit card statements), and proprietary accounting software which would ‘automagically’ fetch, parse (includi
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HoTMetaL: Parse, hyphenate, slice, and render your HTML(github.com)
3 points by rhythmvs 10y ago|0 comments
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by rhythmvs 10y ago
SILE indeed looks great, promising to come on par with the typesetting quality we have come to expect since TeX: Knuth-Plass line breaking, Unicode and OpenType font features support, complete with contextual shaping, Cassowary constraint s
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by rhythmvs 10y ago
Accounting is miserable. We’ve had three accountants, and every one of them has been failing to offer a truly paperless workflow, with data exchange in the cloud (instead of e- or snail-mailing documents). They are using outdated, proprieta
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by rhythmvs 10y ago
Thanks! That’s helpful, indeed. Though, judging from the screenshot, it’s an issue with our fonts, which have not been optimally hinted (yet), because, in the days of retina displays, hinting only still matters for… trashy corporate laptops
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by rhythmvs 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I agree with you. So, we’ll stick to the orthography of the original text (which in these two cases, Shakespeare and Austen, already were obeying to the majority rule of `’s` instead of `’`). In our generic product,

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