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Everything about Text shaping
Process of converting text to glyph indices and positions
Text shaping is the process of converting text to glyph indices and positions as part of text rendering. It is complementary to font rendering as part of the text rendering process; font rendering is used to generate the glyphs, and text shaping decides which glyphs to render and where they should be put on the image plane. Unicode is generally used to specify the text to be rendered. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Text shapingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Shaping Migration Discourse: A Text Analysis of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s SpeechesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Nose BookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Racking the Body, Shaping the Text: The Account of Anne Askew in Foxe's "Book of Martyrs"Cited 21 times
- Go sideways: HarfBuzzA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Apple Advanced TypographyA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Racking the Body, Shaping the Text: The Account of Anne Askew in Foxe's "Book of Martyrs"
From text to tech: Shaping the future of physics-based simulations with AI-driven generative models
How is artificial intelligence shaping the labor demand of firms? ——evidence from text-mining analysis of listed companies
Shaping the Coast with Permits: Making the State Regulatory Permitting Process Transparent with Text Mining
Shaping spaces: Teachers’ orchestration of metatalk about written text
Words shaping worlds: A comprehensive exploration of text-driven image and video generation with generative adversarial networks
Text–Image Relationships in Tweets: Shaping the Meanings of an Epidemic
Affective Image Editing: Shaping Emotional Factors via Text Descriptions
🆕 Influential since 2022
Shaping Migration Discourse: A Text Analysis of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Speeches
Planning and Reasoning With 3D Deformable Objects for Hierarchical Text-to-3D Robotic Shaping
From Text to Context: The Role of Kyai in Shaping Modern Islamic Inheritance Law
Exploring the Role of Sponsoring Agencies in Shaping the MUTCD Using Supervised and Unsupervised Text Mining
HarfBuzz: The quest for universal text shaping
📚 Books worth reading
The Nose BookAl Perkins · 1971
Painting on the MacintoshDeke McClelland, Deke McClelland · 1989
Conozco una viejitaBarbara Flores · 1996
Shape song singalongSteveSongs · 2011
My heart is like a zooMichael Hall · 2010
This old manPam Adams · 2003
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🔗 Related topics
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