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Composition techniques, code patterns, and observations from building publishing software.

May 11, 20268 min

Designing Flexible Composition Grid Systems

How to model baseline grids, column spans, and optical alignment in publishing tools without locking designers into rigid templates.

CompositionArchitecture

April 2, 202611 min

Patterns for building batch layout engines that preserve author intent while scaling to thousands of pages.

TypesettingWorkflow

March 17, 20266 min

Techniques for keeping interactive previews responsive when documents contain complex vector artwork and live text.

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