tex-linebreak

If you enjoyed this you'll probably also enjoy "The Games People Play With Cash Flow" [0] And for the classic HN comment about the site itself: I think it looks very nice, but the native justification algorithm is not very good (especially with hyphenation turned off) so it ends up looking quite sparse at parts on mobile and is a bit jarring to read. I'm a big fan of this implementation [1] of the TeX linebreak algorithm for the web, and think it would make this site look even better with minimal effort. [0] https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/ [1] https://github.com/robertknight/tex-linebreak

This is excellent, thank you! I hadn't heard of "balance" before either, so definitely going to experiment with that now too. Anything that can improve typography on the web, even a little bit is a big win in my opinion. I'm also stealing that 1lh tip they link to! If you like this and are interested in something closer to TeX, why not the TeX algorithm itself!? There's this lovely package that works wonderfully on the web https://github.com/robertknight/tex-linebreak?tab=readme-ov-... And if you want to play around with a live example to check the performance, I use it on my site's about page: https://lynkmi.com/about Been on a big LaTeX buzz recently and even added support for it in comments there too!