On Nov 6, 2015, at 8:55 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > That was an awesome list! Thanks. Just curious, can text layout end up > affecting more than two lines back?
Yes. Assuming we’re dealing with paragraph composition, text anywhere in the paragraph can effect the entire line breaking sequence. The line breaks are determined by different penalties and glue. A single line can cause all the other lines to break differently. There’s lots of good links on the algorithm on the wikipedia page I linked to earlier. Bram Stein did an implementation of the algorithm in Javascript as well.[1] What’s interesting on his page is that he has a comparison between default browser rendering and using the algorithm. > I still think it boils down to rectangles on a path but the path may not be a > straight horizontal line or always going left-to-right, and you sometimes > have to go back a bit. Yes. That’s true. It’s rectangles on a path, but I would not call it simple… ;-) [1]https://github.com/bramstein/typeset/
