Digital Typography Demo Future Work
ETAP: Experimental Typesetting Algorithms
Platform
e ELS 2022 E
Didier Verna
EPITA / LRDE
didier@lrde.epita.fr
lrde/~didier
@didierverna didier.verna
in/didierverna
Digital Typography Demo Future Work
Digital Typography
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A fascinating domain
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Strong focus on beauty and aesthetics
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Full of technical challenges
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Example
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5 identiable problems
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12341 (C
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43
) breaking solutions
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Motivation
1. General interest for the application domain
2. Need to strengthen an existing lecture on typesetting
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Common requirement: experimentation platform / demonstrator
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real-time
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interactive
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Problem: no existing solution
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WYSIWYG tools are of varying quality
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T
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X is not really interactive
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Neither have easily accessible internals (production systems)
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Demo Time…
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Future Work
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General
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Internals stabilization
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instrumentation
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Experimentation
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Revisit Knuth-Plass
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Rivers detection
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Analysis
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Qualitative / performance data collection
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Comparative study
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Blue sky territory
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A new typsetting system?
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Real-time, interactive, GUI ←→ code round-trips
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Help!
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Currently
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Lispworks / CAPI
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Wanted
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* / (Mc)CLIM
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ECL / EQL
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…
https://github.com/didierverna/etap
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