Annotated linesetter

[pzelchenko]

Hello all. I'm a veteran type creature (among other things, I'm the guy who figured out Hobo's origins). I've been thinking about a lightweight annotated reader in JavaScript or Python that could dynamically render something like the following:

Note how leading is increased just enough to carry the annotations, and how the Chinese (or other language) annotation lines need to know precisely where their companion lines' words start and end. Trying to think about how to do this with HTML5 and CSS makes my head hurt. It's simply not practical to attempt H&J on these particles on the fly in HTML. This calls for linesetting logic that computes word escapements as we are writing them onto the device canvas.

I haven't used typesettable, but I wonder if you know if this is close to possible to do, and if it is close but not quite a cigar, whether there's interest in working together to get something like this done.

[adidahiya]

Hi @pzelchenko thanks for your interest. As noted in the README, this library is basically deprecated. There have been no changes for a while, and no future changes planned at this time:

This library is mostly deprecated and its build tooling is very outdated. If you need to make changes to this library, you will need to fix some of the build infrastructure to get it working in a modern testing & deployment environment.