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evikstoday at 4:25 AM1 replyview on HN

Why do you bring up Chinese cornes if the basic Latin text in the Pretext demo is deficient?

(by the way, in your cool demo the wheel template can have some letter parts like the top of L or d extend beyond the wheel)


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rikrootstoday at 7:12 AM

> the wheel template can have some letter parts like the top of L or d extend beyond the wheel

Yeah - I use the template (in that case, a circle) to calculate line lengths, then I run 2d text along the 1d lines. Even if I tried to keep all of the glyphs inside the wheel I'd fail - because some fonts lie about how tall they are. Fonts are, basically, criminals.