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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
We're actively working on making Prince better! If you are in the Melbourne/Australia area and are interested in working in
@MercuryLang
or
@RustLang
, let us know! There's lots of super interesting computer science and programming language problems involved printing/page layout.
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Dave Cramer
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I have nothing but good things to say about PrinceXML. We've produced more than fifty million print books with it. It's becoming more and more sophisticated, especially with Prince for Books. It's easy to experiment with. And there's great support from @yeslogic. CSS + Print = ❤️
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Yeah! I've been using it for some time on a research project, and we've also been working on replacing our font shaping code (currently in C) with Rust. Still a relatively long road towards something we can open source, but that's our eventual goal!
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Yeah! We'd love to have collaborators! At the moment the code is currently living in Prince itself. Our main focus at the moment is getting indic shaping working for a release, but hopefully then we can work on pulling it out into a separate repo/crate that we can get help with!
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
By 'getting indic shaping working' we mean that we've got most of it done, but we are trying to do a bunch of testing to ensure we haven't messed stuff up! We've been implementing it based on the MS docs and github.com/n8willis/opent, and report back any inconsistencies we see 🙂
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GitHub - n8willis/opentype-shaping-documents: Documentation of OpenType shaping behavior
Documentation of OpenType shaping behavior. Contribute to n8willis/opentype-shaping-documents development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Heh, font parsing has been interesting! 😂 I'm currently at work on a binary data description language that can handle it! At the moment we do it at a lower level in Rust though (in a way that is inspired by our data description language).
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