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chenglou/pretext

This system is a text layout engine named Pretext, designed to calculate text height, width, and line-breaking with high accuracy across multiple scripts and bidirectional text. It provides a public ESM package for headless browser automation and automated layout validation, enabling precise measurement of text rendering against browser ground truth. The codebase also includes a suite of interactive demos and diagnostic pages that showcase the engine's capabilities in complex layout scenarios.

51.2

Adequate · 3 August 2026

30k

lines of production code

TypeScript

primary language

1

bus factor · 7 authors in all

3

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 3 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
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  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.18. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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