mbutterick/quad

The docs for quad aren't available at docs.racket-lang.org

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jackfirth commented

I'd like to read more about quad, but there's no docs for it at docs.racket-lang.org. This seems to be because the quad package is failing to build in the package build server.

mbutterick commented

Here's a sample from the Racket docs that’s been converted to Markdown and then rendered to PDF with Quad. There are a few more things I’d like to add before putting up a new docs / demo page, like hyphenation and full justification. Another 30 days or so.

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mbutterick commented

BTW there’s no LaTeX or even racket/draw used here. The PDF is built from a Racket source file (that contains the Markdown, interpreted by a special #lang quad/markdown dialect) and a folder of fonts. The system is in four layers: the top layer is Quad per se, which does the layout; this sits atop a PDF compiler; this sits atop a font-parsing library (which relies on Harfbuzz for shaping and measurement); this sits atop a binary codec library.

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mbutterick commented

33 days later: the demo is ready. Docs are here but won’t refresh till tomorrow.

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jackfirth commented

Looking forward to it! Also the native Racket font parsing and PDF compiler libraries are awesome!