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排版食谱 · 第10章 · 输出与集成

在Web Worker里排版的实时编辑器

Markdown旁边是一张口袋书页面:一个从blob启动的工作线程用自己的字体排本章,每次按键都会取消正在进行的构建。

本页内容
难度
高级
Postext
已用Postext 1.4.1测试
需要≥ 1.4.1
许可证
更新于2026年9月26日
代码MIT · 文本MIT
  • 英文样例:尚无中文版本
  • 成品尺寸110 × 147 mm
  • 1栏
  • Baskervville 9.5/13
  • Baskervville SC
  • Cinzel
  • 9页
  • 难度
  • Postext 1.4.1
  • 排版用时101 ms
  • 238行代码

成品一览

你把H. G. Wells的The Time Machine第I章排成110 × 147 mm的口袋版,Markdown就在旁边。书名页上,牛血红色块里有一个带四个小表盘的黄铜表盘,下方是Cinzel书名。本章正文从第九行开始,上方是罗马数字和一条黄铜线,用9.5/13 pt的Baskervville排,书眉用小型大写字母。每次按键,整章都在一个Web Worker里重新排一遍,右边的Canvas翻到光标所在的那一页。编辑器下方有一根指针,主线程每一帧都转动它,主线程忙时它就停下;状态行给出构建耗时、最长的一帧,以及有多少次构建被更新的按键取消。右上角的菜单可以把构建移到主线程上,以便比较。

这道食谱解答

  • 长书排版时,怎样让页面保持响应(Web Worker、取消)?
  • 为什么断行会变,或者PDF中的字互相重叠?怎样正确加载字体?
  • 能在服务器上或命令行(Node)中生成页面或PDF吗?

简短回答

script.js · 第134–162行在完整代码中
async function startLayoutWorker(faces) {
  // In 1.4.1, createLayoutWorker() on its own starts esm.sh's worker file, which the browser
  // refuses to run from another origin; a same-origin blob that imports it is allowed.
  // An import map does not reach the worker: if the page pins postext@x.y.z, pin this URL too.
  const entry = new Blob([`import 'https://esm.sh/postext/worker/entry';`],
    { type: 'text/javascript' });
  const layout = createLayoutWorker({
    worker: new Worker(URL.createObjectURL(entry), { type: 'module' }) });
  // The worker measures with its own FontFaceSet, not the page's. Without the bytes of every
  // face it measures in a fallback font, and 1.4.1 raises no error. Weights are strings.
  const payloads = await Promise.all(faces.map(async ({ family, weight, style, url }) => {
    // Check the status: a 404 page sent as a font only logs a warning inside the worker.
    const response = await fetch(url);
    if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${family} ${weight} ${style}: HTTP ${response.status}`);
    return { family, weight, style, buffer: await response.arrayBuffer() };
  }));
  await layout.registerFonts(payloads); // the buffers move to the worker, not copied
  let inFlight = null;
  return async function typeset(content) {
    inFlight?.abort(); // cancel the build that the previous keystroke asked for
    const build = (inFlight = new AbortController());
    try {
      return await layout.build(content, config(), { signal: build.signal });
    } catch (error) {
      if (error.name === 'AbortError') return null; // superseded: a newer build is on its way
      throw error;
    }
  };
}

用料

还用到
标题属性
类型
Baskervville, Baskervville SC, Cinzel(SIL OFL 1.1)
素材
  • The title page’s brass dial on oxblood cloth, drawn in code in the page’s palette (Ignacio Ferro, MIT)

做法

#1 · 从blob启动工作线程

这一步的代码见上文的简短回答。在1.4.1里,不带选项调用createLayoutWorker(),会启动模块旁边的那个worker文件。模块来自esm.sh时,这个文件位于esm.sh的源上,Worker构造函数会抛出SecurityError。页面生成的blob URL与页面同源,所以简短回答用一行blob启动一个模块工作线程,它从esm.sh导入postext/worker/entry,再把这个工作线程传给createLayoutWorker({ worker })。句柄的build()接收与buildDocument()相同的内容和配置,返回的也是同一种文档(在Web Worker中运行排版)。

#2 · 每种字体加载两次

script.js · 第343–355行在完整代码中
const FONTS = { // every face the pages use: the page loads them, and so must the worker
  Baskervville: ['400', '400i'], // text, folios, subtitle, colophon
  'Baskervville SC': ['500'], // running heads, the author
  Cinzel: ['700'], // title, numeral, chapter title
};
// The worker gets the same Fontsource files the page loads: identical metrics on both threads.
const faces = Object.entries(FONTS).flatMap(([family, specs]) => specs.map((spec) => {
  const [id, weight, style] = [family.toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '-'), parseInt(spec, 10),
    spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal'];
  const file = `${id}@5/files/${id}-latin-${weight}-${style}.woff2`;
  return { family, weight: String(weight), style,
    url: `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${file}` };
}));

工作线程有自己的FontFaceSet,看不到页面已经加载的字体,所以简短回答去取同样的Fontsource文件,把它们的字节传给registerFonts(),每个字重写成字符串('400')。省掉这一步,1.4.1的工作线程会用后备字体测量,而且不给出警告:本章会排成175行而不是190行,第一行结束在“him)”而不是“of”。字体文件下载失败同样不会被发现。如果工作线程拿到的是一个404页面而不是Baskervville正体,registerFonts()照样完成,本章排成186行,警告只出现在工作线程的控制台里。所以简短回答在发送任何字节之前先检查每个响应的状态,并抛出带字体名和HTTP状态的错误。页面也用loadFonts()加载同样的字体,因为Canvas用页面的字体绘制。

#3 · 每次按键都构建,在主线程上绘制

script.js · 第377–422行在完整代码中
let [doc, shown, builds, cancelled] = [null, 0, 0, 0];
// For the comparison, the main thread keeps a measurement cache as the worker does, so its
// pages match the worker's: in 1.4.1 a build with a cache can break lines differently.
const mainCache = createMeasurementCache();
function paint(n = shown) { // the canvas is sized to its box, in device pixels
  shown = Math.max(0, Math.min(doc.pages.length - 1, n));
  const vdtPage = doc.pages[shown]; // a laid-out page, not the page config above
  const height = ($('proof').clientHeight || 640) * Math.min(devicePixelRatio || 1, 2);
  renderPageToCanvas(vdtPage, doc, $('proof'), { scale: height / vdtPage.height });
  $('proof').setAttribute('aria-label', `Page ${vdtPage.pageLabel}`);
  $('folio').value = `${shown + 1} / ${doc.pages.length}`;
}
function follow() { // turn to the page that holds the caret: every block keeps its source offset
  const caret = $('source').selectionStart;
  paint(doc.pages.findLastIndex((vdtPage) => vdtPage.columns.some((column) =>
    column.blocks.some((block) => block.sourceStart <= caret))));
}
async function refresh() {
  const [ticket, onMain, started] = [++builds, $('thread').value === 'main', performance.now()];
  frames.worst = 0;
  const content = { markdown: $('source').value, resources };
  const next = onMain ? buildDocument(content, config(), mainCache) : await typeset(content);
  await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame); // the first frame after the build shows any stall
  if (!next || ticket !== builds) { cancelled++; return; } // a newer build has been asked for
  doc = next;
  if (document.activeElement === $('source')) follow(); else paint();
  showPages(doc, { title: 'The Time Machine · chapter I, set in a Web Worker' });
  $('clock').value = `${onMain ? 'Main thread' : 'Worker'} · ${doc.pages.length} pages in `
    + `${Math.round(performance.now() - started)} ms · longest frame ${Math.round(frames.worst)}`
    + ` ms · ${builds} ${builds === 1 ? 'build' : 'builds'}, ${cancelled} cancelled`;
}
$('source').addEventListener('input', refresh);
for (const type of ['click', 'keyup']) $('source').addEventListener(type, () => doc && follow());
$('thread').addEventListener('change', refresh);
$('prev').addEventListener('click', () => paint(shown - 1));
$('next').addEventListener('click', () => paint(shown + 1));
// A dial the main thread turns on every frame: it stops while that thread is busy.
const frames = { last: 0, worst: 0 };
requestAnimationFrame(function turn() { // the clock, not the frame's timestamp: a late frame
  const now = performance.now(); // keeps the time it was due, which hides the stall
  frames.worst = Math.max(frames.worst, now - (frames.last || now));
  frames.last = now;
  $('hand').setAttribute('transform', `rotate(${n1((now * 0.06) % 360)})`); // a turn in 6 s
  requestAnimationFrame(turn);
});
await refresh();

typeset()在请求下一次构建之前,先中止正在进行的构建。被中止构建的promise会立即以AbortError拒绝,typeset()把它转成null。在工作线程里,仍在队列中等待的构建会被立即丢弃,正在运行的构建则在当前这一轮放置结束时停止,因为构建只在两轮之间检查是否取消。refresh()给各次构建编号,只绘制最新的一次,所以迟到的工作线程构建不会覆盖主线程构建的结果。文档回到主线程,由renderPageToCanvas()用在主线程注册的图片绘制。工作线程只需要每张图片的尺寸,由资源条目提供(1100 × 840)。每个块都保留自己在Markdown中的偏移量(sourceStart),follow()显示最后一个起始位置不晚于光标的块所在的页面。

#4 · 用标题样式做书名页

script.js · 第57–75行在完整代码中
// # The Time Machine {style="title"}: numbered false, so the Introduction is still chapter I.
const PLATE = TRIM.width * (840 / 1100); // mm: the plate's depth at full width (84 mm)
const titlePage = {
  id: 'title', numbered: false,
  span: 'page', // kept in the column, the design is clipped to it: the plate's top, the author
  header: { elements: [] }, footer: { elements: [] }, // no running head, no folio
  advancedDesign: { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [
    { kind: 'image', id: 'plate', resourceId: 'plate',
      placement: { anchor: { to: 'bleed', edge: 'top-left' }, size: { width: 'fill' } } },
    text('title', '{titleText}', DISPLAY, 28, { fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1.04,
      overflow: 'wrap' }, // two lines, not one and '…' (gotcha: overflow-ellipsis-default)
    onPage(PLATE + 11)),
    text('subtitle', '{subtitle}', TEXT, 12, { italic: true, color: col('oxblood') },
      onPage(PLATE + 34.5)),
    brassRule('rule', onPage(PLATE + 43), 12),
    text('author', '{author}', LABEL, 10, { fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: pt(2) },
      onPage(PLATE + 46.5)),
  ] } },
};

# The Time Machine {style="title"}这一行用title标题样式排第1页,这个样式的header和footer都为空,所以这一页没有书眉和页码。numbered: false把书名排除在章节计数之外,所以Introduction仍是第I章。插图锚定在出血的左上角,作者名排在栏底下方;span: 'page'让设计能在这两处绘制。不设它,1.4.1会把设计裁到栏内,插图顶部会少15 mm,作者名也不会绘制出来。

#5 · 按页面角色放书眉

script.js · 第79–95行在完整代码中
// pages: 'body' keeps the heads off the title page and the opener; parity puts the book's
// title on the verso and the chapter on the recto, folios on the outer edge.
const HEAD_Y = 8.2; // mm from the top edge to the top of the running heads
const SHIFT = (INNER - OUTER) / 2; // mm: the text block's centre is off the page's centre
const head = (id, content, parity, edge, x, style) => ({ kind: 'text', id, content, parity,
  pages: 'body', fontSize: pt(8), color: col('oxblood'), ...style,
  placement: { anchor: { to: 'page', edge }, offset: { x: mm(x), y: mm(HEAD_Y) } } });
const smallCaps = { fontFamily: LABEL, fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: pt(1.2) };
const folio = { fontFamily: TEXT, color: col('ink') }; // the heads' size: the same baseline
const header = { elements: [
  head('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', 'top-left', OUTER, folio),
  head('verso-title', '{title}', 'even', 'top', -SHIFT, smallCaps),
  head('recto-chapter', '{chapterTitle}', 'odd', 'top', SHIFT, smallCaps),
  head('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', 'top-right', -OUTER, folio),
] };
const footer = { elements: [{ ...text('drop-folio', '{pageNumber}', TEXT, 8,
  { color: col('muted') }, inColumn(6.5)), pages: 'opener' }] };

pages: 'body'让书眉不出现在书名页和章首页上,parity在左页排书名、在右页排章名,页码位于外侧边缘。章首页改用页脚页码,来自一个设了pages: 'opener'的页脚元素。页码和书眉都是8 pt,悬挂在距上边缘8.2 mm处,所以页码数字与书眉位于同一条基线上。

#6 · 章首页

script.js · 第99–110行在完整代码中
const chapter = { level: 1, numberingTemplate: '{1:I}', // {number} prints 'I'
  breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' }, // restated (gotcha: headings-drop-h1-break)
  marginTop: pt(0), marginBottom: pt(0),
  advancedDesign: { enabled: true, minHeight: line(8), slot: { elements: [
    text('numeral', '{number}', DISPLAY, 24, { fontWeight: 700, color: col('oxblood') },
      inColumn(5)),
    brassRule('rule', inColumn(18.5), 10),
    text('chapter', '{titleText}', DISPLAY, 12, { fontWeight: 700, letterSpacing: pt(1.8),
      textTransform: 'uppercase', overflow: 'wrap' }, inColumn(22.5)), // a longer title wraps
  ] } } };
const colophon = { id: 'colophon', fontSize: pt(7.5), lineHeight: pt(10.5), color: col('muted'),
  textAlign: 'center', firstLineIndent: pt(0) };

设计中的{number}按numberingTemplate: '{1:I}'给出的形式印出章序号,即罗马数字I。minHeight至少预留八行,所以标题占一两行时,正文从第九行开始;标题较长、需要更多空间时,正文再往下移。breakBefore需要重新写一遍,因为headings对象会丢掉H1默认的分页;parity: 'any'让本章从第2页开始,与它的第二页相对。

完整食谱

沙盒
// ═══ Postext Cookbook · Nº 056 · Live editor with layout in a Web Worker ═══════════
// https://postext.dev/en/cookbook/web-worker-live-editor
// Code: MIT · Text: H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, 1895 (PD, Gutenberg #35) · Art: drawn in code
// Fonts: Baskervville, Baskervville SC, Cinzel (SIL OFL 1.1) · Needs postext ≥ 1.4.1
import {
  buildDocument, createMeasurementCache, renderPageToCanvas, clearMeasurementCache,
  registerResourceImage,
} from 'https://esm.sh/postext';
import { createLayoutWorker } from 'https://esm.sh/postext/worker';

const LANG = 'en'; // @lang: the language of the sample document (this recipe is English only)
const RECIPE = 'web-worker-live-editor';

// ─── 1 · Design ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
const palette = { // every colour in the config links to one of these
  ink: '#231f1a', // the text: a warm near-black
  oxblood: '#7a1f1f', // the accent: running heads, the numeral, the subtitle, the plate's cloth
  brass: '#a88a4a', // rules and the dial's bezel (never text: 2.7:1 on the paper)
  gilt: '#d8bd7c', // the plate's frame and rings, on the oxblood
  rule: '#c9bca0', // the dial's inner ring
  muted: '#6b5d4b', // the drop folio and the colophon (5.3:1 on the paper)
  paper: '#f2ead8', // a cream pocket-book paper
};
// Each colour names its palette entry and carries its hex (gotcha: palette-skips-designs).
const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id });
const colorPalette = [
  ...Object.entries(palette).map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } })),
  // The engine's defaults link to 'main-color'. The editor takes any Markdown, and without this
  // entry a list typed into it gets the default blue markers.
  { id: 'main-color', name: 'oxblood (defaults)', value: { hex: palette.oxblood, model: 'hex' } },
];
const [TEXT, LABEL, DISPLAY] = ['Baskervville', 'Baskervville SC', 'Cinzel'];

// The page: 110 × 147 mm, a text block of 25 whole lines.
const TRIM = { width: 110, height: 147 }; // mm: a Victorian pocket size, close to A6
const [BODY, LEAD, LINES] = [9.5, 13, 25]; // pt, pt, lines: the text block is LINES leads deep
const [TOP, INNER, OUTER] = [15, 11, 9]; // mm; mirrored, so INNER is the spine side
const MM_PER_PT = 25.4 / 72;
const MEASURE = TRIM.width - INNER - OUTER; // 90 mm: about 60 characters of Baskervville
const line = (n) => pt(n * LEAD); // n grid lines
const page = {
  sizePreset: 'custom', width: mm(TRIM.width), height: mm(TRIM.height), dpi: 150,
  backgroundColor: col('paper'),
  margins: { top: mm(TOP), bottom: mm(TRIM.height - TOP - LINES * LEAD * MM_PER_PT),
    left: mm(INNER), right: mm(OUTER), mirror: true },
};

const onPage = (y) => ({ anchor: { to: 'page', edge: 'top' }, offset: { y: mm(y) } }); // centred
const inColumn = (y) => ({ anchor: { to: 'container', edge: 'top' }, offset: { y: mm(y) } });
const text = (id, content, fontFamily, fontSize, style, placement) => ({ kind: 'text', id,
  content, fontFamily, fontSize: pt(fontSize), color: col('ink'), align: 'center', ...style,
  placement: { ...placement, size: { width: mm(MEASURE) } } });
const brassRule = (id, y, width) => ({ kind: 'rule', id, direction: 'horizontal',
  thickness: pt(0.75), color: col('brass'), placement: { ...y, size: { width: mm(width) } } });

// #region title: page 1 is a heading style of its own: the plate, the title and no heads
// # The Time Machine {style="title"}: numbered false, so the Introduction is still chapter I.
const PLATE = TRIM.width * (840 / 1100); // mm: the plate's depth at full width (84 mm)
const titlePage = {
  id: 'title', numbered: false,
  span: 'page', // kept in the column, the design is clipped to it: the plate's top, the author
  header: { elements: [] }, footer: { elements: [] }, // no running head, no folio
  advancedDesign: { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [
    { kind: 'image', id: 'plate', resourceId: 'plate',
      placement: { anchor: { to: 'bleed', edge: 'top-left' }, size: { width: 'fill' } } },
    text('title', '{titleText}', DISPLAY, 28, { fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1.04,
      overflow: 'wrap' }, // two lines, not one and '…' (gotcha: overflow-ellipsis-default)
    onPage(PLATE + 11)),
    text('subtitle', '{subtitle}', TEXT, 12, { italic: true, color: col('oxblood') },
      onPage(PLATE + 34.5)),
    brassRule('rule', onPage(PLATE + 43), 12),
    text('author', '{author}', LABEL, 10, { fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: pt(2) },
      onPage(PLATE + 46.5)),
  ] } },
};
// #endregion

// #region heads: running heads on body pages only, a drop folio on the opener
// pages: 'body' keeps the heads off the title page and the opener; parity puts the book's
// title on the verso and the chapter on the recto, folios on the outer edge.
const HEAD_Y = 8.2; // mm from the top edge to the top of the running heads
const SHIFT = (INNER - OUTER) / 2; // mm: the text block's centre is off the page's centre
const head = (id, content, parity, edge, x, style) => ({ kind: 'text', id, content, parity,
  pages: 'body', fontSize: pt(8), color: col('oxblood'), ...style,
  placement: { anchor: { to: 'page', edge }, offset: { x: mm(x), y: mm(HEAD_Y) } } });
const smallCaps = { fontFamily: LABEL, fontWeight: 500, letterSpacing: pt(1.2) };
const folio = { fontFamily: TEXT, color: col('ink') }; // the heads' size: the same baseline
const header = { elements: [
  head('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', 'top-left', OUTER, folio),
  head('verso-title', '{title}', 'even', 'top', -SHIFT, smallCaps),
  head('recto-chapter', '{chapterTitle}', 'odd', 'top', SHIFT, smallCaps),
  head('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', 'top-right', -OUTER, folio),
] };
const footer = { elements: [{ ...text('drop-folio', '{pageNumber}', TEXT, 8,
  { color: col('muted') }, inColumn(6.5)), pages: 'opener' }] };
// #endregion

// #region opener: the chapter sinks eight lines under its roman numeral and a brass rule
const chapter = { level: 1, numberingTemplate: '{1:I}', // {number} prints 'I'
  breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' }, // restated (gotcha: headings-drop-h1-break)
  marginTop: pt(0), marginBottom: pt(0),
  advancedDesign: { enabled: true, minHeight: line(8), slot: { elements: [
    text('numeral', '{number}', DISPLAY, 24, { fontWeight: 700, color: col('oxblood') },
      inColumn(5)),
    brassRule('rule', inColumn(18.5), 10),
    text('chapter', '{titleText}', DISPLAY, 12, { fontWeight: 700, letterSpacing: pt(1.8),
      textTransform: 'uppercase', overflow: 'wrap' }, inColumn(22.5)), // a longer title wraps
  ] } } };
const colophon = { id: 'colophon', fontSize: pt(7.5), lineHeight: pt(10.5), color: col('muted'),
  textAlign: 'center', firstLineIndent: pt(0) };
// #endregion

const config = () => ({ // a factory: the engine caches resolved configs per object
  colorPalette,
  page,
  layout: { layoutType: 'single' }, // one column: the default is two
  bodyText: {
    fontFamily: TEXT, fontSize: pt(BODY), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), color: col('ink'),
    boldColor: col('ink'), italicColor: col('ink'), firstLineIndent: mm(4),
    indentAfterHeading: false,
    // Copy-fitted: at these spacings chapter I sets 25 lines on every full page, with no
    // hyphen inside a hyphenated word ('af-/ter-dinner') on the pages the Cookbook shows.
    minWordSpacing: 0.66, maxWordSpacing: 1.9,
    maxRuntTracking: 0, // gotcha: runt-tracking-unpainted
  },
  headings: { fontFamily: DISPLAY, fontWeight: 700, color: col('ink'), levels: [chapter] },
  headingStyles: [titlePage],
  paragraphStyles: [colophon],
  header,
  footer,
});

// #region answer: layout in a module worker started from a blob, with its own fonts
async function startLayoutWorker(faces) {
  // In 1.4.1, createLayoutWorker() on its own starts esm.sh's worker file, which the browser
  // refuses to run from another origin; a same-origin blob that imports it is allowed.
  // An import map does not reach the worker: if the page pins postext@x.y.z, pin this URL too.
  const entry = new Blob([`import 'https://esm.sh/postext/worker/entry';`],
    { type: 'text/javascript' });
  const layout = createLayoutWorker({
    worker: new Worker(URL.createObjectURL(entry), { type: 'module' }) });
  // The worker measures with its own FontFaceSet, not the page's. Without the bytes of every
  // face it measures in a fallback font, and 1.4.1 raises no error. Weights are strings.
  const payloads = await Promise.all(faces.map(async ({ family, weight, style, url }) => {
    // Check the status: a 404 page sent as a font only logs a warning inside the worker.
    const response = await fetch(url);
    if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${family} ${weight} ${style}: HTTP ${response.status}`);
    return { family, weight, style, buffer: await response.arrayBuffer() };
  }));
  await layout.registerFonts(payloads); // the buffers move to the worker, not copied
  let inFlight = null;
  return async function typeset(content) {
    inFlight?.abort(); // cancel the build that the previous keystroke asked for
    const build = (inFlight = new AbortController());
    try {
      return await layout.build(content, config(), { signal: build.signal });
    } catch (error) {
      if (error.name === 'AbortError') return null; // superseded: a newer build is on its way
      throw error;
    }
  };
}
// #endregion

// ─── 2 · Content ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
const markdown = String.raw`---
Markdown样例 · 118行 · content.en.mdtitle: "The Time Machine" subtitle: "An Invention" author: "H. G. Wells" --- # The Time Machine {style="title"} # Introduction The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burnt brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere, when thought runs gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way—marking the points with a lean forefinger—as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it) and his fecundity. “You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.” “Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?” said Filby, an argumentative person with red hair. “I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it. You will soon admit as much as I need from you. You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness *nil*, has no real existence. They taught you that? Neither has a mathematical plane. These things are mere abstractions.” “That is all right,” said the Psychologist. “Nor, having only length, breadth, and thickness, can a cube have a real existence.” “There I object,” said Filby. “Of course a solid body may exist. All real things—” “So most people think. But wait a moment. Can an *instantaneous* cube exist?” “Don’t follow you,” said Filby. “Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?” Filby became pensive. “Clearly,” the Time Traveller proceeded, “any real body must have extension in *four* directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.” “That,” said a very young man, making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp; “that … very clear indeed.” “Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,” continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness. “Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time. *There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it*. But some foolish people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea. You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension?” “*I* have not,” said the Provincial Mayor. “It is simply this. That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others. But some philosophical people have been asking why *three* dimensions particularly—why not another direction at right angles to the other three?—and have even tried to construct a Four-Dimensional geometry. Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago. You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four—if they could master the perspective of the thing. See?” “I think so,” murmured the Provincial Mayor; and, knitting his brows, he lapsed into an introspective state, his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words. “Yes, I think I see it now,” he said after some time, brightening in a quite transitory manner. “Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.” “Scientific people,” proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, “know very well that Time is only a kind of Space. Here is a popular scientific diagram, a weather record. This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer. Yesterday it was so high, yesterday night it fell, then this morning it rose again, and so gently upward to here. Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognised? But certainly it traced such a line, and that line, therefore, we must conclude, was along the Time-Dimension.” “But,” said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, “if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different? And why cannot we move about in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of Space?” The Time Traveller smiled. “Are you so sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.” “Not exactly,” said the Medical Man. “There are balloons.” “But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement.” “Still they could move a little up and down,” said the Medical Man. “Easier, far easier down than up.” “And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.” “My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel *down* if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth’s surface.” “But the great difficulty is this,” interrupted the Psychologist. “You *can* move about in all directions of Space, but you cannot move about in Time.” “That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilised man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?” “Oh, *this*,” began Filby, “is all—” “Why not?” said the Time Traveller. “It’s against reason,” said Filby. “What reason?” said the Time Traveller. “You can show black is white by argument,” said Filby, “but you will never convince me.” “Possibly not,” said the Time Traveller. “But now you begin to see the object of my investigations into the geometry of Four Dimensions. Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine—” “To travel through Time!” exclaimed the Very Young Man. “That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines.” Filby contented himself with laughter. “But I have experimental verification,” said the Time Traveller. “It would be remarkably convenient for the historian,” the Psychologist suggested. “One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance!” “Don’t you think you would attract attention?” said the Medical Man. “Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.” “One might get one’s Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato,” the Very Young Man thought. “In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go. The German scholars have improved Greek so much.” “Then there is the future,” said the Very Young Man. “Just think! One might invest all one’s money, leave it to accumulate at interest, and hurry on ahead!” “To discover a society,” said I, “erected on a strictly communistic basis.” “Of all the wild extravagant theories!” began the Psychologist. “Yes, so it seemed to me, and so I never talked of it until—” “Experimental verification!” cried I. “You are going to verify *that*?” “The experiment!” cried Filby, who was getting brain-weary. “Let’s see your experiment anyhow,” said the Psychologist, “though it’s all humbug, you know.” The Time Traveller smiled round at us. Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory. The Psychologist looked at us. “I wonder what he’s got?” “Some sleight-of-hand trick or other,” said the Medical Man, and Filby tried to tell us about a conjuror he had seen at Burslem, but before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back, and Filby’s anecdote collapsed. :::space{lines=2} :::paragraphs{style="colophon"} Set in Baskervville, Baskervville SC and Cinzel (SIL Open Font License). Text: H. G. Wells, *The Time Machine* (1895), chapter I, from Project Gutenberg eBook 35. :::
`; // content.en.md, inlined by the Cookbook const resources = [{ id: 'plate', typeId: 'figure', kind: 'svg', createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0, svg: { fileId: 'plate.svg', width: 1100, height: 840 }, // the size is all the worker needs altText: 'A brass dial with four small dials on its face, framed in gilt on oxblood cloth.' }]; // #region art: the title page's plate, a brass dial with four small dials on oxblood cloth // "One dial records days, and another thousands of days, another millions of days, and another // thousands of millions" (chapter IV). Drawn in tenths of a millimetre: 110 × 84 mm. const n1 = (v) => +v.toFixed(1); const at = (cx, cy, r, deg) => [n1(cx + r * Math.sin((deg * Math.PI) / 180)), n1(cy - r * Math.cos((deg * Math.PI) / 180))]; const mix = (hex, other, k) => `#${[1, 3, 5].map((i) => Math.round( parseInt(hex.slice(i, i + 2), 16) * (1 - k) + parseInt(other.slice(i, i + 2), 16) * k) .toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('')}`; const circle = (cx, cy, r, fill, extra = '') => `<circle cx="${cx}" cy="${cy}" r="${r}" fill="${fill}"${extra}/>`; function ticks(cx, cy, r, n, lengths, widths, color) { // n ticks inward from radius r return Array.from({ length: n }, (_, i) => { const k = lengths.findIndex((_, j) => i % [n / 10, n / 20, 1][j] === 0); const [a, b] = [at(cx, cy, r, (i * 360) / n), at(cx, cy, r - lengths[k], (i * 360) / n)]; return `<path d="M${a}L${b}" stroke="${color}" stroke-width="${widths[k]}"/>`; }).join(''); } function hand(cx, cy, length, deg, color) { // a tapered pointer with a short tail const [tip, left, tail, right] = [at(cx, cy, length, deg), at(cx, cy, 6, deg - 90), at(cx, cy, length * 0.28, deg + 180), at(cx, cy, 6, deg + 90)]; return `<path d="M${tip}L${left}L${tail}L${right}Z" fill="${color}"/>`; } function subDial(cx, cy, deg) { const P = palette; return circle(cx, cy, 78, P.brass) + circle(cx, cy, 70, P.paper) + ticks(cx, cy, 64, 50, [13, 9, 5], [3.2, 1.6, 1.2], P.ink) + hand(cx, cy, 58, deg, P.oxblood) + circle(cx, cy, 9, P.brass) + circle(cx, cy, 3.5, P.ink); } function plate() { const P = palette; const [cx, cy, d] = [550, 420, 122]; // the dial's centre; the small dials sit d from it const corner = (x, y) => `<path d="M${x} ${y - 11}L${x + 11} ${y}L${x} ${y + 11}` + `L${x - 11} ${y}Z" fill="${P.gilt}"/>`; const frame = (inset, width) => `<rect x="${inset}" y="${inset}" width="${1100 - 2 * inset}" ` + `height="${840 - 2 * inset}" fill="none" stroke="${P.gilt}" stroke-width="${width}"/>`; return '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 1100 840">' + `<rect width="1100" height="840" fill="${P.oxblood}"/>${frame(46, 5)}${frame(62, 2)}` + [[62, 62], [1038, 62], [62, 778], [1038, 778]].map(([x, y]) => corner(x, y)).join('') + circle(cx, cy, 300, mix(P.brass, P.ink, 0.35)) + circle(cx, cy, 292, P.brass) + ticks(cx, cy, 292, 180, [12, 12, 12], [4, 4, 4], mix(P.brass, P.ink, 0.35)) // knurling + circle(cx, cy, 276, P.gilt) + circle(cx, cy, 262, P.paper) + ticks(cx, cy, 254, 100, [26, 16, 10], [5, 3, 1.8], P.ink) + circle(cx, cy, 216, 'none', ` stroke="${P.rule}" stroke-width="2.5"`) + subDial(cx, cy - d, 216) + subDial(cx + d, cy, 72) // days, thousands of days + subDial(cx, cy + d, 324) + subDial(cx - d, cy, 144) // millions, thousands of millions + circle(cx, cy, 30, P.brass) + circle(cx, cy, 21, P.gilt) + circle(cx, cy, 8, P.ink) + '</svg>'; } // #endregion // ─── 3 · Fonts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // #region fonts: one list of faces for both threads: the page loads them, the worker gets bytes const FONTS = { // every face the pages use: the page loads them, and so must the worker Baskervville: ['400', '400i'], // text, folios, subtitle, colophon 'Baskervville SC': ['500'], // running heads, the author Cinzel: ['700'], // title, numeral, chapter title }; // The worker gets the same Fontsource files the page loads: identical metrics on both threads. const faces = Object.entries(FONTS).flatMap(([family, specs]) => specs.map((spec) => { const [id, weight, style] = [family.toLowerCase().replace(/ /g, '-'), parseInt(spec, 10), spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal']; const file = `${id}@5/files/${id}-latin-${weight}-${style}.woff2`; return { family, weight: String(weight), style, url: `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${file}` }; })); // #endregion // ─── 4 · Build & show ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // The worker and the page each load the faces: the worker to measure, the page to paint. const [typeset] = await Promise.all([startLayoutWorker(faces), loadFonts(FONTS, markdown)]); await loadSvg('plate.svg', plate()); // images stay on the main thread: the worker never paints document.getElementById('pages').insertAdjacentHTML('beforebegin', `<section id="editor"> <header><span>time-machine.md · chapter I</span><label>Lay out in <select id="thread"> <option value="worker">a Web Worker</option><option value="main">the main thread</option> </select></label></header> <textarea id="source" spellcheck="false" aria-label="Markdown source"></textarea> <figure><canvas id="proof" role="img"></canvas><figcaption><button id="prev" aria-label="Previous page">‹</button><output id="folio"></output><button id="next" aria-label="Next page">›</button></figcaption></figure> <footer><svg id="beat" viewBox="-12 -12 24 24" aria-hidden="true"><circle r="11"/> <path id="hand" d="M0 2V-9"/></svg><output id="clock"></output></footer></section>`); const $ = (id) => document.getElementById(id); $('source').value = markdown; // #region editor: each keystroke sets the chapter again; the main thread only paints let [doc, shown, builds, cancelled] = [null, 0, 0, 0]; // For the comparison, the main thread keeps a measurement cache as the worker does, so its // pages match the worker's: in 1.4.1 a build with a cache can break lines differently. const mainCache = createMeasurementCache(); function paint(n = shown) { // the canvas is sized to its box, in device pixels shown = Math.max(0, Math.min(doc.pages.length - 1, n)); const vdtPage = doc.pages[shown]; // a laid-out page, not the page config above const height = ($('proof').clientHeight || 640) * Math.min(devicePixelRatio || 1, 2); renderPageToCanvas(vdtPage, doc, $('proof'), { scale: height / vdtPage.height }); $('proof').setAttribute('aria-label', `Page ${vdtPage.pageLabel}`); $('folio').value = `${shown + 1} / ${doc.pages.length}`; } function follow() { // turn to the page that holds the caret: every block keeps its source offset const caret = $('source').selectionStart; paint(doc.pages.findLastIndex((vdtPage) => vdtPage.columns.some((column) => column.blocks.some((block) => block.sourceStart <= caret)))); } async function refresh() { const [ticket, onMain, started] = [++builds, $('thread').value === 'main', performance.now()]; frames.worst = 0; const content = { markdown: $('source').value, resources }; const next = onMain ? buildDocument(content, config(), mainCache) : await typeset(content); await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame); // the first frame after the build shows any stall if (!next || ticket !== builds) { cancelled++; return; } // a newer build has been asked for doc = next; if (document.activeElement === $('source')) follow(); else paint(); showPages(doc, { title: 'The Time Machine · chapter I, set in a Web Worker' }); $('clock').value = `${onMain ? 'Main thread' : 'Worker'} · ${doc.pages.length} pages in ` + `${Math.round(performance.now() - started)} ms · longest frame ${Math.round(frames.worst)}` + ` ms · ${builds} ${builds === 1 ? 'build' : 'builds'}, ${cancelled} cancelled`; } $('source').addEventListener('input', refresh); for (const type of ['click', 'keyup']) $('source').addEventListener(type, () => doc && follow()); $('thread').addEventListener('change', refresh); $('prev').addEventListener('click', () => paint(shown - 1)); $('next').addEventListener('click', () => paint(shown + 1)); // A dial the main thread turns on every frame: it stops while that thread is busy. const frames = { last: 0, worst: 0 }; requestAnimationFrame(function turn() { // the clock, not the frame's timestamp: a late frame const now = performance.now(); // keeps the time it was due, which hides the stall frames.worst = Math.max(frames.worst, now - (frames.last || now)); frames.last = now; $('hand').setAttribute('transform', `rotate(${n1((now * 0.06) % 360)})`); // a turn in 6 s requestAnimationFrame(turn); }); await refresh(); // #endregion
工具包 · core, fonts, viewer, images:每道食谱都相同 · 270行// ─── Kit ── helpers shared by every Cookbook recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ───── // ─── Kit · core v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ───────── function mm(value) { return { value, unit: 'mm' }; } function pt(value) { return { value, unit: 'pt' }; } function em(value) { return { value, unit: 'em' }; } /** The sample language's string: t({ en: 'Figure', es: 'Figura' }). */ function t(strings) { return strings[LANG] ?? Object.values(strings)[0]; } /** A file in this recipe's assets folder, served from the Postext repo by jsDelivr. */ function asset(file) { return `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/drnachio/postext@main/cookbook/${RECIPE}/assets/${file}`; } // ─── Kit · fonts v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ──────── // Postext measures text with the faces the browser has loaded, and caches the // widths, so every face must be ready before the first build. Faces come from // Fontsource: the same static files the PDF embeds, so screen and PDF agree. /** faces = { 'Family Name': ['400', '400i', '700'] }. `text` is the sample: * letters beyond Latin-1 (č, ł, ő…) also load the latin-ext files. With * `optional`, a face Fontsource does not ship is skipped instead of failing. * Resolves to the number of faces added. */ async function loadFonts(faces, text = '', { optional = false } = {}) { kitStatus('Loading fonts…'); const ranges = { latin: 'U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+2000-206F,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD', 'latin-ext': 'U+0100-02BA,U+02BD-02C5,U+02C7-02CC,U+02CE-02D7,U+02DD-02FF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+1D00-1DBF,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20C0,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF', }; const subsets = /[Ā-˿Ḁ-ỿ]/.test(text) ? ['latin', 'latin-ext'] : ['latin']; const jobs = []; let added = 0; for (const [family, specs] of Object.entries(faces)) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const meta = optional ? await fontsourceMeta(family) : null; for (const spec of new Set(specs)) { const weight = parseInt(spec, 10); const style = spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal'; if (hasFace(family, weight, style)) continue; if (optional && !(meta?.weights.includes(weight) && meta.styles.includes(style))) continue; for (const subset of subsets) { const url = `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${id}@5/files/${id}-${subset}-${weight}-${style}.woff2`; const face = new FontFace(family, `url(${url}) format('woff2')`, { weight: String(weight), style, unicodeRange: ranges[subset] }); jobs.push(face.load().then((ready) => { document.fonts.add(ready); added++; }, () => { if (subset === 'latin' && !optional) throw new Error(`Fontsource has no ${family} ${weight} ${style}`); })); } } } await Promise.all(jobs).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); return added; } /** Runs `build` (a buildDocument or buildBundle call) and checks the faces * the pages use. A regular face missing from FONTS is loaded with a warning; * bold and italic variants are loaded when the family ships them. Then the * measurement caches are cleared and the build runs again. */ async function buildWithFonts(build, text = '') { const tried = new Set(); for (let round = 0; round < 3; round++) { kitStatus('Laying out…'); await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame); // let the status paint first const result = await Promise.resolve().then(build).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); const wanted = { base: {}, variants: {} }; for (const { font, base } of [result].flat().flatMap(fontStringsOf)) { const { family, weight, style } = parseFont(font); const key = `${family}|${weight}|${style}`; if (tried.has(key) || hasFace(family, weight, style)) continue; tried.add(key); (wanted[base ? 'base' : 'variants'][family] ??= []).push(`${weight}${style === 'italic' ? 'i' : ''}`); } if (Object.keys(wanted.base).length) { console.warn(`[cookbook] FONTS does not list ${JSON.stringify(wanted.base)}: loading them.`); } const added = await loadFonts(wanted.base, text) + await loadFonts(wanted.variants, text, { optional: true }); if (added === 0) return result; clearMeasurementCache(); } throw new Error('The fonts did not settle after three builds.'); } /** Every font string of the layout. `base` marks a block's own face; its * bold, italic and bold-italic variants are listed whether or not used. */ function fontStringsOf(doc) { const found = new Map(); const walk = (node) => { if (!node || typeof node !== 'object') return; if (Array.isArray(node)) { node.forEach(walk); return; } for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(node)) { if (typeof value === 'string' && /fontString$/i.test(key)) { found.set(value, found.get(value) || key === 'fontString'); } else if (value && typeof value === 'object') walk(value); } }; walk(doc.pages); walk(doc.blocks); return [...found].map(([font, base]) => ({ font, base })); } /** '700 37.5px Open Sans' / 'italic 400 13px "Source Serif 4"' → { family, weight, style }. * A string with no weight ('95.8px Young Serif', from a design text) is 400. */ function parseFont(font) { const m = /^(?:(italic|oblique)\s+)?(?:small-caps\s+)?(?:(\d+|bold|normal)\s+)?[\d.]+px\s+(.+)$/.exec(font.trim()); if (!m) throw new Error(`Unexpected font string: ${font}`); const weight = m[2] === 'bold' ? 700 : !m[2] || m[2] === 'normal' ? 400 : Number(m[2]); return { family: m[3].replace(/^["']|["']$/g, ''), weight, style: m[1] ? 'italic' : 'normal' }; } /** True when a loaded FontFace covers exactly this family, weight and style * (document.fonts.check() is also true for families nobody declared). */ function hasFace(family, weight, style) { for (const face of document.fonts) { if (face.status !== 'loaded' || face.style !== style) continue; if (face.family.replace(/^["']|["']$/g, '') !== family) continue; const [low, high = low] = face.weight.split(' ').map(Number); if (weight >= low && weight <= high) return true; } return false; } /** Fontsource's id for a family: 'Source Serif 4' → 'source-serif-4'. */ function fontsourceId(family) { return family.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-'); } /** The weights and styles a family ships ({ weights: [400, 700], styles: ['normal', 'italic'] }), or null. */ function fontsourceMeta(family) { fontsourceMeta.cache ??= new Map(); const id = fontsourceId(family); if (!fontsourceMeta.cache.has(id)) { fontsourceMeta.cache.set(id, fetch(`https://api.fontsource.org/v1/fonts/${id}`) .then((res) => (res.ok ? res.json() : null), () => null)); } return fontsourceMeta.cache.get(id); } // ─── Kit · viewer v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ─────── /** Shows the pages as facing spreads on a dark desk: the first page is a * recto on its own, then verso | recto pairs, as in a bound book. Pages * are painted when they scroll near the screen. */ function showPages(docs, { title, width = 460 } = {}) { const root = viewer(title); const pages = [docs].flat().flatMap((doc) => doc.pages.map((page) => ({ doc, page, n: (doc.pageIndexOffset ?? 0) + page.index }))); const spreads = []; let verso = null; for (const p of pages) { if (p.n % 2 === 1) { if (verso) spreads.push([verso, null]); verso = p; } else { spreads.push([verso, p]); verso = null; } } if (verso) spreads.push([verso, null]); const density = Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio || 1, 2); showPages.painter?.disconnect(); const painter = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => { for (const { isIntersecting, target } of entries) { if (!isIntersecting) continue; painter.unobserve(target); const { doc, page } = target.postext; renderPageToCanvas(page, doc, target, { scale: (width * density) / page.width }); } }, { rootMargin: '800px' }); showPages.painter = painter; root.replaceChildren(...spreads.map((pair) => { const spread = document.createElement('div'); spread.className = 'pt-spread'; for (const p of pair) { const figure = document.createElement('figure'); if (p) { const label = p.page.pageLabel || String(p.n + 1); const canvas = document.createElement('canvas'); canvas.postext = p; canvas.style.aspectRatio = `${p.page.width} / ${p.page.height}`; canvas.setAttribute('role', 'img'); canvas.setAttribute('aria-label', `Page ${label}`); const folio = document.createElement('figcaption'); folio.textContent = label; figure.append(canvas, folio); painter.observe(canvas); } else figure.className = 'pt-blank'; spread.append(figure); } return spread; })); kitStatus(`${pages.length} ${pages.length === 1 ? 'page' : 'pages'}`); document.documentElement.dataset.postext = 'ready'; return pages.length; } /** The desk, the bar and the error reporting, created once. */ function viewer(title) { if (!document.getElementById('pt-kit')) { document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', `<style id="pt-kit"> :root { color-scheme: dark; } body { margin: 0; background: #0e1014; color: #b9bcc4; font: 13px/1.45 system-ui, sans-serif; } #pt-bar { position: sticky; top: 0; z-index: 1; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: center; gap: 6px 16px; padding: 10px 16px; background: rgb(14 16 20 / .92); backdrop-filter: blur(6px); border-bottom: 1px solid #23262d; } #pt-bar strong { color: #f4f1ea; font-weight: 600; } #pt-actions { display: flex; gap: 12px; margin-left: auto; } #pt-actions a, #pt-actions button { color: #d8a21a; font: inherit; background: none; border: 0; padding: 0; cursor: pointer; } #pages { display: grid; justify-items: center; gap: 48px; padding: 32px 16px 72px; } .pt-spread { display: flex; } .pt-spread figure { margin: 0; width: min(460px, 44vw); } .pt-spread canvas { display: block; width: 100%; background: #fff; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / .5), 0 22px 44px -16px rgb(0 0 0 / .8); } .pt-spread figure:first-child canvas { box-shadow: inset -14px 0 14px -14px rgb(0 0 0 / .18), 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / .5), 0 22px 44px -16px rgb(0 0 0 / .8); } .pt-spread figcaption { margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; font: 600 10px/1 system-ui, sans-serif; letter-spacing: .18em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #6c7079; } .pt-blank { visibility: hidden; } @media (max-width: 760px) { .pt-spread { flex-direction: column; gap: 32px; } .pt-spread figure { width: min(460px, 92vw); } .pt-blank { display: none; } } </style>`); document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', '<header id="pt-bar"><strong id="pt-title"></strong><span id="pt-status" role="status"></span><span id="pt-actions"></span></header>'); document.getElementById('pt-title').textContent = document.title || 'Postext'; addEventListener('error', (event) => kitFail(event.error ?? event.message)); addEventListener('unhandledrejection', (event) => kitFail(event.reason)); } if (title) document.getElementById('pt-title').textContent = title; return document.getElementById('pages') ?? document.body.appendChild(Object.assign(document.createElement('main'), { id: 'pages' })); } function kitStatus(text) { viewer(); document.getElementById('pt-status').textContent = text; } function kitFail(error) { document.documentElement.dataset.postext = 'error'; kitStatus(`Error: ${error?.message ?? error}`); } // ─── Kit · images v1 ── recipes with pictures · postext.dev/cookbook ────────── /** Registers a photo or PNG for the canvas and keeps its bytes for the PDF. * fetch → ImageBitmap never taints the canvas (a plain cross-origin <img> would). */ async function loadImage(fileId, url) { const res = await fetch(url); if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Image not found (${res.status}): ${url}`); const bytes = new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer()); registerResourceImage(fileId, await createImageBitmap(new Blob([bytes]))); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, bytes); } /** Registers SVG markup (drawn in code, or fetched) as a vector image. */ async function loadSvg(fileId, svg) { const img = new Image(); img.src = `data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(svg)}`; await img.decode(); registerResourceImage(fileId, img); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, new TextEncoder().encode(svg)); } /** renderToPdf({ resourceBytes: imageBytes }) */ function imageBytes(fileId) { return loadImage.bytes?.get(fileId); } /** renderToHtml({ resourceImageUrl: imageUrl }) */ function imageUrl(fileId) { const bytes = imageBytes(fileId); if (!bytes) return undefined; imageUrl.urls ??= new Map(); if (!imageUrl.urls.has(fileId)) { const type = /\.svg$/i.test(fileId) ? 'image/svg+xml' : /\.png$/i.test(fileId) ? 'image/png' : 'image/jpeg'; imageUrl.urls.set(fileId, URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([bytes], { type }))); } return imageUrl.urls.get(fileId); } // ─── /Kit ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

组合好的script.js可以直接运行:把它粘贴到任何页面的模块脚本中,或在CodePen上打开这道食谱。 GitHub上的食谱文件夹 ↗

常见问题

易错点

createLayoutWorker()无法从CDN启动工作线程

不带参数调用时,createLayoutWorker()会启动模块旁边的工作线程文件。从esm.sh导入时,这个文件位于另一个源,Worker构造函数会抛出SecurityError('cannot be accessed from origin')。从一个导入https://esm.sh/postext/worker/entry的同源blob启动模块工作线程,再把它传进去:createLayoutWorker({ worker })。如果打包工具从你自己的源提供postext,就不需要这个blob。 在Web Worker中排版 →

易错点

排版工作线程用它自己的字体测量

工作线程有自己的FontFaceSet,页面已加载的字型对它不可见。第一次构建前,用registerFonts()把每个字型的字节发给它,字重写成字符串('400')。没有这些字节,工作线程会用后备字体测量,不报错也不警告,断行和页数都会改变。 在Web Worker中排版 →

易错点

排版前加载所有字体

排版用浏览器已加载的字体测量文字,并缓存宽度,所以首次构建之后才到的字体会造成断行错误,PDF也不再与屏幕一致。先加载所有字重和样式;有字体迟到时,重新构建前调用clearMeasurementCache()。 排版前加载字体 →

易错点

配置按对象身份缓存:每次新建一个对象

引擎按对象身份缓存解析后的配置,所以就地修改配置再构建,会复用旧的结果。每次构建都新建一个对象,这也是食谱的配置写成工厂函数config()的原因。 在Canvas上绘制页面 →

易错点

传入任何headings对象都会关掉H1换页

默认情况下,H1换页到右页(always-odd),但只要传入headings对象,这个默认值就会被重置,于是各章接排,span: 'page'也不起作用。在每份配置中重新写明headings.levels[0].breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity }。 从右页开始的章 →

易错点

替换调色板时,设计元素和引用颜色不会跟着变

postext 1.4.1把colorPalette读入文字样式(正文、标题、列表、题注、表格、框),但不读入页眉、页脚、章首页和篇章页的元素,也不读入bodyText.referenceColor:它们保留写在paletteId旁边的十六进制颜色。替换调色板时(例如做深色屏幕版或换色),在构建前根据colorPalette重写每一个关联的颜色。 语义调色板 →

易错点

设计文本的lineHeight是倍数,不是尺寸

在设计槽位中,文本元素的lineHeight是其字号的倍数(lineHeight: 1.05)。在postext 1.4.1中,写成pt(15)这样的尺寸值不会被拒绝:章首页的高度会算成NaN,它预留的空间(连同minHeight)被丢弃,也不给出警告,正文就排到了标题底下。 页面设计中的文字、线条和框 →

易错点

设计文本的overflow默认为'ellipsis-end'

宽度放不下的设计文本元素默认以省略号结尾。需要折成多行的标题,设置overflow: 'wrap'。 页面设计中的文字、线条和框 →

易错点

消除孤字时收紧的字距可能根本不绘制

在postext 1.4.1中,段落以孤字结尾时,排版会把它排短一行:先收紧词间距,再用最多maxRuntTracking个千分之一em的负字距。Canvas和PDF渲染器只绘制大于零的字距,所以收紧了字距的段落印出来时并没有收紧:两端对齐的行从词间空格中扣掉了这部分差额,显得拥挤,末行还可能超出行长,在栏边被裁掉。设置bodyText.maxRuntTracking: 0,保留词间距的修正,再改写重新出现的孤字。 段末孤行、段首孤行与孤字 →

  • 在postext 1.4.1里,带测量缓存的构建与不带缓存的构建断行可能不同,而工作线程总是保留一个缓存。在本食谱90 mm的行长下,两种情况都排成190行;但页边距改为13 mm和10 mm(行长87 mm)、使用默认词间距时,不带缓存排成196行,带缓存排成199行。示例给主线程也配了自己的缓存(createMeasurementCache()),这样改动行长时,两个线程排出的页面仍然相同。
  • 页面上的import map作用不到工作线程。如果你为页面固定了https://esm.sh/postext@1.4.1,也要把blob里的import固定到同一版本,否则两个线程可能运行不同的版本。

致谢

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图片
  • The title page’s brass dial on oxblood cloth, drawn in code in the page’s palette · Ignacio Ferro · MIT
字体
Baskervville (SIL OFL 1.1) · Baskervville SC (SIL OFL 1.1) · Cinzel (SIL OFL 1.1)
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