A Piano Echoing in a Moss-Covered, Crumbling Stone Hall
Trying some new things.
Over the last few months I’ve accumulated too many changes to talk about. Some highlights:
- Design
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A new masthead and Front Page.
- Notes
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CommonMark syntax for cross-references, transclusions, definition lists, sidenotes, citations, and math. See Ink’s CommonMark Extensions.
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A major rewrite of how extensions to CommonMark are implemented.
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An overhaul of the citation system. Hopefully this makes it easier to manage inline citations, but I also recognize this is a rabbit hole down which too many people have disappeared.
- Type
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A new modular type scale and a major refactoring of how type sizes are implemented in CSS.
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Many, many microtypography improvements and fixes. Some are noted in Microtypography.
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A major rewrite to the subsetting pass allowing specific glyphs to be dropped. The core font files have been reduced by almost half from 169 KB to 83 KB.
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Support for Japanese fonts and an easier way of writing ruby.
- Accessibility
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Accessibility improvements across the site, particularly for those using screen readers or keyboard navigation.
- Refactoring
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Removal of several underutilizied features, some used by only one post. Many of those posts have been archived for now.
I have a huge pile of notes to import. For now, click around the hubs for Games or Typography.
I’ve updated the list of Books I read last year. Do you have something I should add to my Book Pile?