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NANTUCKET LIT PHLOG

ADDING LISTS TO PRINT-SHANTY

NJB // 2024-09-23 // Silverthorne, CO

© 2024 Nicholas Bernhard

CC-BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

Updates to print-shanty.js for 2024-09-23:

SUPPORT FOR LISTS IN PHYSICAL BOOKS

I am adding support for Markdown-type lists to Shanty. If the first character
of a line is an asterisk, and the second character is a space (" "), then the
parser will treat that as an item in a list. At the moment, the syntax for
nested lists is backwards. I put it in as an asterisk followed by more spaces
to indent an item, when it should be spaces followed by an asterisk.

The next update to Nantucket E-Books will include support for lists. 

This could also be used to include ragged-right paragraphs.

Allowing spaces at the start of lines meant that lines weren't getting trimmed
properly, which prevented the text from justifying in some areas. I believe I
have fixed that bug. 

BETTER INDENTATIONS

I made the mistake of allowing spaces to be used as indentations in the text.
This does not work with proportionally-spaced fonts, since the the spaces
themselves can vary in width. Instead, you need to set the x-position of for
the start of the @lt@text@gt@ SVG element. This is already how indentations for
new paragraphs worked, but I had not been consistent in implementing it that
way.

Another issue I've had is that bold text in the table of contents is
ever-so-slightly misaligned from other items in the list. I've introduced an
offset value that realigns the bold text.


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