As I was mentioning in an earlier blog entry , the part of the FeedJournal project which I have been feeling most insecure about is how to design the algorithm for laying out the articles in the newspaper. This is a critical step for a number of reasons: it has to look like a newspaper, it has to read like a newspaper, and it has to be pretty (the output PDF is essentially a part of the FeedJournal GUI). Anyway, I am happy to report that significant progress have been in this area. I developed an algorithm which dynamically creates a newspaper with customizable: number of paragraphs margins paper size font spacing between rows and various article elements I have also implemented support for a headline font size which is a function of the article's importance/size . Together with the mas...
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