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Re:Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM by Xlythe on Sunday June 23, 2024 @11:03AM (#40767973)
It seems like it'd be possible to, instead of typing multiple exclamation points, have one trigger-character (eg. ). And then replace that character visually with an entire paragraph of text, assuming there aren't limits to the width of a character in fonts. I suppose the cursor and text wrapping would go wonky, though.

You could also use this to make animated fonts. An excuse to hook up a diffusion model next?

Re:Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM by Lockal on Sunday June 23, 2024 @11:48PM (#40772520)
"animated fonts" - not really; all meaningful applications not only calculate shaping once, they also aggressively cache the result (mentioned in https://robert.ocallahan.org/2024/06/browser-engine.html)

But things like this might be possible (for now): https://gwern.net/dropcap