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Software Engineering
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Fractional scales, fonts and hinting

GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year. The new renderers have much improved support for fractional scaling—on my system, I now use 125% scaling instead of the 'Large Text' setting, and I find that works fine for my needs. Magical numbers Ever since 4.0, GTK…

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Loro's rich text CRDT

This article presents the rich text CRDT algorithm implemented in Loro, complying with Peritext's criteria for seamless rich text collaboration. Furthermore, it can be built on top of any List CRDT algorithms and turn them into rich text CRDTs.