Commenting: electronic.alchemy
electronic.alchemy
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Commenting: letterpress/monotype/monotype software features

Caster Controller Ribbon Generator
  • support for italic, small cap, etc alphabets
  • automatic calculation of justification codes
  • can calculate ragged left, ragged right and centered justification on a per-paragraph basis
  • fixed spaces can be added at any point
  • support for quadding a line
  • letterspacing support
  • hyphenation support (us english dictionary available currently) with a preference to avoid hyphenating twice in a certain number of lines (all settings will be made configurable)
  • support for automatically detecting and using ligatures in the matcase in a job. this can be disabled completely for a job, and can also be disabled for a ligature sort by marking it as non-automatic in the MCA
  • when quadding, narrow fixed spaces are placed as far from the end of the line as possible, in order to prevent sorts from toppling over
  • when quadding, en and em quads are alternated in order to minimize line length errors caused by worn wedges
TO DO
  • add ability to specify ribbon in a text box rather than a file, such as for quick jobs. (COMPLETE)
  • option to choose minimum justification setting (COMPLETE)
  • when adding fixed unit spacing, make up larger spaces from smaller if exact space not available. (COMPLETE)
  • option to select hyphenation language (COMPLETE, includes english, german, dutch and french)
  • add list of MCA problems (duplicate mats, etc) and make it possible to highlight the problems (IN PROGRESS)
  • header and footer support (IN PROGRESS)
  • add non-standard line breaks for use in generating font ribbons (COMPLETE)
  • add manual pin control with cycle sensor override (COMPLETE)
  • add cycle sensor indicator in caster controller application (COMPLETE)
  • add "jump to line" feature in caster controller (COMPLETE)
  • figure out why dojo doesn't always load, requiring a refresh of the page (IN PROGRESS, likely fixed)
  • allow drag and drop in matcase between elements
  • recognize when a matrix has been removed from a matcase, and add it to the "not in matcase" list
  • make "not in matcase" list configurable
  • add ability to select override settings for a given row (minimum spacing, hyphenation, etc)
  • display markup help when entering text via text box
  • get things to work with ie, maybe?

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