word wrapping
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Say I don't have room to wrap a single world like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. In the real world, I'd just find a syllable and then hyphenate. I don't think I can do that - and i don't think i *should* do that in html and css. I don't know *what* to do. What would you do?
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Look at the CSS options which cover a lot https://tippingpoint.dev/pure-css-truncate-text Seem like simple wrap would be good for an ereader just splitting the word at the last char on the line...no ellipses or such needed.
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Disregard my pevious answer - that's for HTML only. If it's for an e-reader you have bigger problems: use a library to do this because there are multiple things involved in flowing text. If you've never used LaTeX you are probably not familiar with all the complexities involved: 1. Font kerning: changes the width of a line. 2. Inter-word spacing: algorithm must ensure no rivers run through paragraphs and edges line up. 3. Paragraph indentation: in literary prose all paragraphs have an indentation. 4. Long word wrapping: You need to use a table of pre-calculated breakpoints that are specific to a glyph. 5. Language: Some languages read right-to-left, and these may be in the middle of a sentence in a language which reads left-to-right. If you're implementing an E-reader then you need to know all of the following concepts: 1. Kerning 2. Ligatures 3. Unicode code-points 4. Unicode BMP 5. Unicode surrogates 6. Unicode characters 7. Unicode glyphs 8. Rivers/runs in text 9. Struts and rules in text 10. Baselines, Caplines 11. Ascenders, descenders 12. Subpixels ... and probably a hundred other typesetting things I forgot or don't know about. Flowing text for an E-reader (or PDF, or book or any typesetting) is an entire Phd topic on its own and can take years of work to implement. It does help if you've used LaTeX in the past, because it chooses good defaults for all of the above, and if you want to change anything you're forced to learn what all those things mean.
There is a pre baked library that covers many of these problems: http://site.icu-project.org/ Do not underestimate the weedy-ness of wrapping text. Check out some of the South Asian scripts. Thai, for example, has no spaces. Another strategy would be to scroll the too-long word. Think 1980's 16 character LED and LCD displays.
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Find me a library for this that works on the Arduino framework. 1. Done 2. Not 3. Done 4. Not 5. Done 6. Done 7. Done (although i think you mean ttf/otf glyphs 8. Not 9. Not 10.Done 11.I don't know what that is 12. If you mean fractional pixels or anti-aliasing, done
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Honey, ascenders and descenders are letters like 't', 'l', 'h' that ascend above a standard 'a' type character and descenders are 'p', 'q', 'y' that descend below a standard 'a' type character.
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Say I don't have room to wrap a single world like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. In the real world, I'd just find a syllable and then hyphenate. I don't think I can do that - and i don't think i *should* do that in html and css. I don't know *what* to do. What would you do?
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Use a different word...
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Honey, ascenders and descenders are letters like 't', 'l', 'h' that ascend above a standard 'a' type character and descenders are 'p', 'q', 'y' that descend below a standard 'a' type character.
Oh I thought it was going to be something weird. Yeah my stuff does that. It's basic truetype. you couldn't render fonts without it.
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Oh I thought it was going to be something weird. Yeah my stuff does that. It's basic truetype. you couldn't render fonts without it.
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Jargon is always scary until you know what it means!
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Look at the CSS options which cover a lot https://tippingpoint.dev/pure-css-truncate-text Seem like simple wrap would be good for an ereader just splitting the word at the last char on the line...no ellipses or such needed.
That's what I'm hoping I can get away with. =)
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I could tell my client that but it's not true,
You appaer to be in agreement with this statement of mine:
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Sure, you can get part of the way there on an atmega platform
So, yeah, that's completely true and factual - you can definitely get part of the way there! I'm guessing that the easiest bits can be done (inter-word spacing and hyphenation at syllable boundaries), but anything else you add in is going to result in a ragged right-edge. If you are okay with a ragged right edge, then it all becomes doable on an ESP32 (that's like what, 80KB RAM?)
Adding, you didn't mention an atmega before so I'm not sure what you're quoting. In any case I didn't agree or disagree with that statement because you didn't make it. This is what I responding to:
Maybe you should tell your client that the project they contracted you for is not completely realisable on their choice of hardware.
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Well, I'd split on a
space if possible,
but that isn't
always possible,
particularly with
"supercalifragilisti
cexpialidocious",
which exceeds the
line length all on
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Say I don't have room to wrap a single world like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. In the real world, I'd just find a syllable and then hyphenate. I don't think I can do that - and i don't think i *should* do that in html and css. I don't know *what* to do. What would you do?
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If me I'd question if this a complication that actually needs handling or just a programming challenge I want to figure out. Real world: what application this on, why would there not be enough screen space in current era. If was user input box on very narrow component, well the problem is flipped why user inputting into narrow viewed space, why cant space be increased. if label - again flip word. having it increase height of space might not be desirable, so leaves truncation "." "..." as an option. Put generically: figure out if this a problem that needs solving or if asking the wrong question.
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If me I'd question if this a complication that actually needs handling or just a programming challenge I want to figure out. Real world: what application this on, why would there not be enough screen space in current era. If was user input box on very narrow component, well the problem is flipped why user inputting into narrow viewed space, why cant space be increased. if label - again flip word. having it increase height of space might not be desirable, so leaves truncation "." "..." as an option. Put generically: figure out if this a problem that needs solving or if asking the wrong question.
I mean that's fair, but here's the thing: I don't know the screen size and it may be as small as 300px across. It's an e-reader 300px is not practical for an e-reader, I know - but it's more about me not knowing the functional design specs of the hardware yet. I'm coding defensively in light of lack of solid specs yet. We simply can't know the specs yet, but it will probably be about 600px across like the nook but there may be a smaller version that's more pocketable if that's practical. Still, if they zoom in, or if the title (H1 tag) is long it could still be a problem.
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Adding, you didn't mention an atmega before so I'm not sure what you're quoting. In any case I didn't agree or disagree with that statement because you didn't make it. This is what I responding to:
Maybe you should tell your client that the project they contracted you for is not completely realisable on their choice of hardware.
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Adding, you didn't mention an atmega before so I'm not sure what you're quoting.
I'm quoting this post over here, which as you can see contains the sentence you missed: The Lounge[^]
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This is what I responding to: Maybe you should tell your client that the project they contracted you for is not completely realisable on their choice of hardware.
Seems you're in agreement with that too, since you say:
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not that I'm trying to implement all of it - just enough to show most epubs mostly correctly.
That's what "not completely realisable" means.
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Adding, you didn't mention an atmega before so I'm not sure what you're quoting.
I'm quoting this post over here, which as you can see contains the sentence you missed: The Lounge[^]
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This is what I responding to: Maybe you should tell your client that the project they contracted you for is not completely realisable on their choice of hardware.
Seems you're in agreement with that too, since you say:
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not that I'm trying to implement all of it - just enough to show most epubs mostly correctly.
That's what "not completely realisable" means.
First of all, you never mentioned the atmega in that post. I just looked at the link you gave me. I didn't miss a sentence. What was being discussed was the Arduino framework. It is only incidently related to an atmega in that an atmega will run it. It's not the only thing that does.
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That's what "not completely realisable" means.
It's what this means
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Maybe you should tell your client that the project they contracted you for is not completely realisable
I bolded the relevant bits. You forgot the operative part. I was never contracted to build a 100% to spec e-reader.
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First of all, you never mentioned the atmega in that post. I just looked at the link you gave me. I didn't miss a sentence. What was being discussed was the Arduino framework. It is only incidently related to an atmega in that an atmega will run it. It's not the only thing that does.
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That's what "not completely realisable" means.
It's what this means
Member 13301679 wrote:
Maybe you should tell your client that the project they contracted you for is not completely realisable
I bolded the relevant bits. You forgot the operative part. I was never contracted to build a 100% to spec e-reader.
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First of all, you never mentioned the atmega in that post. I just looked at the link you gave me. I didn't miss a sentence. What was being discussed was the Arduino framework. It is only incidently related to an atmega in that an atmega will run it. It's not the only thing that does.
Okay, what do you see as the second sentence in [^]?
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Member 13301679 wrote: That's what "not completely realisable" means. It's what this means Member 13301679 wrote: Maybe you should tell your client that the project they contracted you for is not completely realisable I bolded the relevant bits. You forgot the operative part. I was never contracted to build a 100% to spec e-reader.
The operative part being that you don't do this for money? It's damn funny then that you lecture some who does get paid for embedded stuff you are trying to learn :-) Anyway, back to the topic, you bolded the part where I said it's not compeletely realisable, and then you said you can do most of it, mostly. Sounds like you agree but can't bring yourself to admit it. No as much as I like to see people whine that "I can't see the word atmega in a paragraph of two sentences" when given a direct link, I cannot entertain your self-humiliation much longer - as a professional I have paying clients to attend to. You'd do the same once you start getting paid for your "work".
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First of all, you never mentioned the atmega in that post. I just looked at the link you gave me. I didn't miss a sentence. What was being discussed was the Arduino framework. It is only incidently related to an atmega in that an atmega will run it. It's not the only thing that does.
Okay, what do you see as the second sentence in [^]?
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Member 13301679 wrote: That's what "not completely realisable" means. It's what this means Member 13301679 wrote: Maybe you should tell your client that the project they contracted you for is not completely realisable I bolded the relevant bits. You forgot the operative part. I was never contracted to build a 100% to spec e-reader.
The operative part being that you don't do this for money? It's damn funny then that you lecture some who does get paid for embedded stuff you are trying to learn :-) Anyway, back to the topic, you bolded the part where I said it's not compeletely realisable, and then you said you can do most of it, mostly. Sounds like you agree but can't bring yourself to admit it. No as much as I like to see people whine that "I can't see the word atmega in a paragraph of two sentences" when given a direct link, I cannot entertain your self-humiliation much longer - as a professional I have paying clients to attend to. You'd do the same once you start getting paid for your "work".
I like that you think I'm trying to learn. I get paid to write embedded. I'm done with you. I have no patience for hubris.
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Well, I'd split on a
space if possible,
but that isn't
always possible,
particularly with
"supercalifragilisti
cexpialidocious",
which exceeds the
line length all on
its own. -
Say I don't have room to wrap a single world like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. In the real world, I'd just find a syllable and then hyphenate. I don't think I can do that - and i don't think i *should* do that in html and css. I don't know *what* to do. What would you do?
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It sounds like you are leaning toward a hard break at the display margin. Instead of using a hyphen, how about another pair of symbols? I am thinking of the proof readers notation when two words are supposed to be joined. It is like a subscripted “u” that connects the words. Draw half of it on the break, and the other half on the continuation. Or use an ellipsis at both the break and the continuation. Or just a random hyphen. Don’t worry about being correct for a word like that. It will likely never happen.
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It sounds like you are leaning toward a hard break at the display margin. Instead of using a hyphen, how about another pair of symbols? I am thinking of the proof readers notation when two words are supposed to be joined. It is like a subscripted “u” that connects the words. Draw half of it on the break, and the other half on the continuation. Or use an ellipsis at both the break and the continuation. Or just a random hyphen. Don’t worry about being correct for a word like that. It will likely never happen.
I think I might implement this: Section 5.9. Line-Breaking Properties | Unicode Explained[^]
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Say I don't have room to wrap a single world like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. In the real world, I'd just find a syllable and then hyphenate. I don't think I can do that - and i don't think i *should* do that in html and css. I don't know *what* to do. What would you do?
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You might consider "soft hyphens" - Cheerio
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You might consider "soft hyphens" - Cheerio
I have since found something called the Unicode Line Breaking algorithm and I've decided to go that route.
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