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Reblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):

cms@social.lol wrote:

because I've recently been amused by #emacs rendering rich text documents, here's one from my archives.

in around 2016, I was working on dynamic picture-book rendering for https://wonderbly.com, using a #java 2D based pre-press stack.

I used #emacs as a picture book REPL, leveraging #scala with #sbt and #ensime mode to evaluate page renders interactively with incremental compilation.

Here is a screenshot of an early iteration of mixed point type support for the book 'A kingdom of you'

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