Thomas Lin Pedersen on Nostr: I've been hard at work updating our entire text rendering stack in #RStats Read about ...
I've been hard at work updating our entire text rendering stack in #RStats
Read about the relevant improvements in systemfonts, textshaping, and marquee in this rundown.
The tldr; is that marquee is now ready for primetime
Other large quality-of-life improvements are build-in support for web fonts and easier access to fonts that aren't installed on the system.
Put `require_font(<font name>)` in your script and it will fetch and load it if it isn't already available
https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01/text-rendering-updates/Published at
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