Burro

The layout bug is fixed!

Weekly progress update since 2023-10-05 • 2023-10-12Michael Rees


This week, I went a Rust hack night with the Deep Dish Rust group. While there, I fixed the remaining issues with the new layout algorithm. Then, this morning, I cleaned up the code base, removed the old Word structures, and migrated everything to EmitChunks. That means that after several weeks of promising to make progress, the significant layout bug is fixed!

You can browse the final patch over in the source repository.

At one point, I entertained committing to an October 1st release date, which has obviously come and gone. I'm very glad to be able to move back to making actual progress towards the 0.1 release. Next week, I hope to add support for independent margin controls (currently, Burro only lets you set all margins). This will be more complicated than it might appear because of handling the reset arguments.

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