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Neighbour-dependent grapheme positioning
Complex text layout (CTL) or complex text rendering is the typesetting of writing systems in which the shape or positioning of a grapheme depends on its relation to other graphemes. The term is used in the field of software internationalization, where each grapheme is a character. Wikipedia →
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📚 Books worth reading
Operations ManagementRoberta S. Russell, Bernard Taylor · 1998
Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
Teach yourself visually web designRob Huddleston · 2010
Understanding object-oriented programming with JavaTimothy Budd · 1998
Unix text processingDale Dougherty, Tim O'Reilly · 1987
Simulated Evolution and LearningLam Thu Bui · 2012- 📕Fo jiao kao guChongfeng Li · 2014
A first course in computational physics and object-oriented programming with C++David Yevick · 2005
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