Typeset

Typeset is an HTML pre-processor for web typography which provides typographic features used traditionally in fine printing which remain unavailable to browser layout engines. Typeset's processing brings the following to your webpages:

• Hanging punctuation
• Ligatures
• Optical margin alignment
• Punctuation substitution
• Small caps
• Soft hyphen insertion

Typeset does not require any client-side JavaScript and uses less than a kilobyte of CSS. Processed HTML & CSS works in Internet Explorer 5 and without any CSS. Typeset can be used manually or as a plugin for Grunt and gulp.

Getting Started

Install

$ npm i typeset

Usage

const typeset = require('typeset');
let html = '<p>"Hello," said the fox.</p>';
let output = typeset(html);

CSS

Then tweak the CSS to match the metrics of your font and include it on your page.

/*
 Small Capitals
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps 
*/

.small-caps {font-variant: small-caps;}

/*
 Optical margin alignment for particular letters 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_margin_alignment
*/

.pull-T, .pull-V, .pull-W, .pull-Y {margin-left: -0.07em}
.push-T, .push-V, .push-W, .push-Y {margin-right: 0.07em}

.pull-O, .pull-C, .pull-o, .pull-c {margin-left: -0.04em}
.push-O, .push-C, .push-o, .push-c {margin-right: 0.04em}

.pull-A {margin-left: -0.03em}
.push-A {margin-right: 0.03em}

/* 
 Quotation mark 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark
*/

/* Single quotation marks (') */
.pull-single{margin-left:-.27em}
.push-single{margin-right:.27em}

.pull-double, .push-double,
.pull-single, .push-single {display: inline-block}

/* Double quotation marks (") */
.pull-double{margin-left:-.46em}
.push-double{margin-right:.46em}

Options

You can pass an options object to influence how your HTML is typeset:

const options = {
  ignore: '.skip, #anything, .which-matches', // string of CSS selector(s) to ignore
  only: '#only-typeset, .these-elements', // string of CSS selector(s) to exclusively apply typeset to
  disable: ['hyphenate'] // array of typeset feature(s) to disable
};

Features

The following features may be disabled:

• hyphenate
• hangingPunctuation
• ligatures
• punctuation
• quotes
• smallCaps
• spaces

CLI Usage

$ npm i -g typeset

Usage: typeset-js [options] [<infile> [<outfile>]]

Options:

  -h, --help      output usage information
  -V, --version   output the version number
  -i, --ignore    string of CSS selector(s) to ignore
  -O, --only      string of CSS selector(s) to exclusively apply typeset to
  --disable,      string of typeset feature(s) to disable, separated by commas

Examples:

Compile a file and print it to stdout:

$ typeset-js inputFile.html

To create an output file, just add a second argument:

$ typeset-js inputFile.html outputFile.html

Use the --ignore option to ignore specific CSS selectors:

$ typeset-js inputFile.html outputFile.html --ignore ".some-class, h3"

Use the --disable option to disable typeset features:

$ typeset-js inputFile.html outputFile.html --disable "hyphenate,ligatures"

CLI redirections:

$ cat index.html | typeset-js > outputFile.html

Plugins

• Grunt
• gulp.

Support

If you don't find the answer to your problem in our docs, or have a suggestion for improvements, submit your question here.

License

This software is dedicated to the public domain and licensed under Creative Commons Zero. See the LICENSE file for details.

To Do:

• Language options & support
• Widows & orphans.
• Incorporate features from Normalize Opentype