Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layout engine in Rust

Re:Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layo... by emmanueloga_ on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @05:01AM (#19786237)

Layout is a subject that feels a little bit like a mystic art. There are really no books or accessible material about it, that I know off.

No, the TeX book doesn't count. Looking at the source of Chrome or Firefox doesn't count. Stretch source doesn't count. W3C CSS specs definitely do not count :-p.

I know that there are some papers floating (pun not intended) but I wish somebody wrote a serious book about layout algorithms! Even splitting the words of a paragraph into an optimal shape is something that is surprisingly more complicated and rich topic than one would imagine [1].

Do you know of any resources/docs/papers/implementation-notes that you would recommend?

1: https://xxyxyz.org/line-breaking/

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Re:Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layo... by emilsjolander on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @05:35AM (#19786392)

Hey! I'm actually in the process of writing up a high level overview of Flexbox and how it works. Won't cover all aspects but would make it easier to understand hopefully. Can't promise when I'll post it but hopefully soon at medium.com/visly.

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Re:Show HN: Stretch – A high-performance cross-platform layo... by emmanueloga_ on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @01:45AM (#19794836)

cool! I look forward your write up :-)

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