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On “WiTeX - If Donald Knuth had designed Wikipedia”
This is a great video that describes clearly how hard the problem is.
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The Kindle Text Problem - Computerphile
Computerphile
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- Recommended by 2 people: 2 in engineering communities.
- Presented by Dr Steve Bagley, University of Nottingham
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Dr Steve Bagley explains the computational challenges of rendering and laying out text on e-readers compared to PDFs.
Why is it that PDFs look great and yet e-books can look ropey? - Dr Steve Bagley turns Brady into a computer to find out. EXTRA BITS: youtu.be/CdbvgRqyC-0 Floating Point Numbers: youtu.be/PZRI1IfStY0 EXTRA BITS - More on Printing and Typesetting History: youtube.com/watch?v=HdModNEK_1U Shellshock Code & the Bash Bug: youtube.com/watch?v=MyldPMn95kk nb: the percentage in an e-reader tends to refer to how much book you have left to go, not the state of the battery charge! -Sean facebook.com/computerphile twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computer Science at the University of Nottingham: bit.ly/nottscomputer Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: bit.ly/bradychannelsWhy it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a clear explanation of the difficulties of text layout and typesetting on e-readers.
u/chromaticburstin r/compsci • Recommends
On “Is it not feasible for web browsers to line break (and hyphenate) justified text as well as LaTeX does?”
If you're interested in this subject, Computerphile did a video on the problem of text layout.