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- # textpour
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- A render-agnostic **text-geometry kernel** on top of
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- [`@chenglou/pretext`](https://github.com/chenglou/pretext).
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-
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- - **Shape-flow**: pour text into arbitrary 2D regions — circles, polygons, holes, boolean
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- combinations, SVG paths, glyph outlines, and raster alpha masks — by routing Pretext's
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- line-breaking through per-row spans. (CSS `shape-inside` never shipped; this does it.)
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- - **Typographic quality** (the moat): justification (`align: 'justify'`), soft-hyphenation,
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- balanced lines, auto-fit (binary-search font size), and conservative band sampling so glyphs
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- never poke outside tight curves.
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- - **Cursor ↔ point mapping**: map pixel positions to exact grapheme positions and back, for
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- caret/hit-testing in custom-rendered text.
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- - **Pluggable paint**: the kernel computes geometry; `Renderer`s paint it. Canvas2D works today;
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- an HTML-in-Canvas adapter (for high-fidelity, accessible, 3D-surface paint) is stubbed for later.
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- The design bet is the **plan/paint split**: Pretext plans cheaply every frame (no DOM reflow); an
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- expensive high-fidelity backend paints only when the plan changes.
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-
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- ## Demo
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-
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- Text poured into a circle and a donut (multi-span), reflowing live as the region changes — the same
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- prepared pass reused on every frame:
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-
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- ![textpour demo: text flowing into a circle and a donut, reflowing live](assets/textpour-demo.gif)
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-
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- ## Why not just Pretext?
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-
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- Pretext is the line-breaking and measurement engine — a very good one. It breaks lines at a width
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- *you give it*, measures without DOM reflow, and its fuller API even does Knuth–Plass justification,
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- syllable hyphenation, and "shrinkwrap" (`walkLineRanges`). It can already flow text past a floated
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- image, because that's still **one rectangular width that varies by `y`**.
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-
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- What Pretext deliberately does **not** model is **2D geometry**. Its layout call is "one line, one
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- width." textpour adds exactly that missing layer:
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-
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- - **Arbitrary regions, not a scalar width.** A `Region` turns any 2D shape — circles, ellipses,
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- polygons, boolean unions/intersections/**holes**, SVG paths, glyph outlines, raster alpha masks —
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- into the per-row spans Pretext consumes. Pretext has no notion of a shape, a hole, or an outline.
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- - **Multiple disjoint spans per line — the "cursor trick."** Pouring a single row across the left
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- *and* right of a hole (a donut), or into the prongs of a concave shape, in reading order on one
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- baseline. Pretext's one-line-one-width API can't natively continue a row across a gap; textpour
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- threads one cursor through every span on the row.
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- - **Auto-fit to a region** — binary-search the font size that exactly fills a shape. Pretext keys
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- layout on `(text, font)`; it doesn't size-to-fit a 2D area.
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- - **A render-agnostic plan/paint kernel** — geometry computed once, painted by pluggable
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- `Renderer`s (Canvas2D today, HTML-in-Canvas later).
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- - **Cursor ↔ point mapping** for hit-testing/caret in custom-rendered text.
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-
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- Honest overlap: textpour targets the **published `@chenglou/pretext@0.0.1`**, whose API is just
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- `prepareWithSegments` + `layoutNextLine`. So textpour's own justification, soft-hyphenation, and
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- balanced-lines are pragmatic implementations over that minimal surface — when Pretext ships its
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- richer API (Knuth–Plass justify, real hyphenation, `walkLineRanges`), textpour will defer to those
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- and keep only the geometry it uniquely contributes.
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-
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- In one line: **Pretext breaks the lines; textpour decides the shape those lines fill.**
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- ## Quickstart
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- ```bash
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- npm install
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- npm test # builds, runs the pure-logic test suite (56 specs)
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- npm run build # emits dist/
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- # demo (needs a browser + http):
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- npx http-server . # or any static server
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- # open /demo/index.html
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- ```
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- ## Status
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-
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- **Phase 0** (kernel scaffold) and **Phase 1** (shape-flow quality — justification, soft-hyphenation,
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- balanced lines, auto-fit, region-from-outline, conservative band sampling) are complete and tested
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- (56 specs). See **ROADMAP.md** for what's next — the HTML-in-Canvas renderer (Phase 2), then the
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- flagship "shaped CSS text on a 3D surface" demo (Phase 3).
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-
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- ## Docs
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-
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- - **EXPLAINER.md** — plain-words overview, ELI5, and the origin story (start here for the why).
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- - **CLAUDE.md** — how to work in this repo (conventions, commands, guardrails).
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- - **SPEC.md** — the full design, API reference, and the relationship to Pretext + HTML-in-Canvas.
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- - **ROADMAP.md** — phased tasks with acceptance + kill criteria.
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-
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- ## Example
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- ```ts
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- import { shapeFlow, circle, subtract, Canvas2DRenderer, PretextLineSource } from 'textpour';
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- const source = new PretextLineSource(longText, '17px Georgia'); // one prepare pass
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- const region = subtract(circle(220, 220, 160), circle(220, 220, 67)); // a donut
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- const result = shapeFlow(source, region, { lineHeight: 24, ascent: 18 });
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- new Canvas2DRenderer('17px Georgia', { color: '#1a1a1a' }).render(result, ctx);
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- // result.overflow / result.endCursor drive auto-fit and multi-region pagination
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- ```
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- MIT.
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+ # textpour
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+
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+ A render-agnostic **text-geometry kernel** on top of
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+ [`@chenglou/pretext`](https://github.com/chenglou/pretext).
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+
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+ - **Shape-flow**: pour text into arbitrary 2D regions — circles, polygons, holes, boolean
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+ combinations, SVG paths, glyph outlines, and raster alpha masks — by routing Pretext's
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+ line-breaking through per-row spans. (CSS `shape-inside` never shipped; this does it.)
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+ - **Typographic quality** (the moat): justification (`align: 'justify'`), soft-hyphenation,
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+ balanced lines, auto-fit (binary-search font size), and conservative band sampling so glyphs
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+ never poke outside tight curves.
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+ - **Cursor ↔ point mapping**: map pixel positions to exact grapheme positions and back, for
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+ caret/hit-testing in custom-rendered text.
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+ - **Pluggable paint**: the kernel computes geometry; `Renderer`s paint it. Canvas2D works today;
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+ an HTML-in-Canvas adapter (for high-fidelity, accessible, 3D-surface paint) is stubbed for later.
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+
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+ The design bet is the **plan/paint split**: Pretext plans cheaply every frame (no DOM reflow); an
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+ expensive high-fidelity backend paints only when the plan changes.
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+
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+ ## Demo
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+
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+ Text poured into a circle and a donut (multi-span), reflowing live as the region changes — the same
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+ prepared pass reused on every frame:
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+
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+ ![textpour demo: text flowing into a circle and a donut, reflowing live](assets/textpour-demo.gif)
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+
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+ ## Why not just Pretext?
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+
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+ Pretext is the line-breaking and measurement engine — a very good one. It breaks lines at a width
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+ *you give it*, measures without DOM reflow, and its fuller API even does Knuth–Plass justification,
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+ syllable hyphenation, and "shrinkwrap" (`walkLineRanges`). It can already flow text past a floated
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+ image, because that's still **one rectangular width that varies by `y`**.
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+
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+ What Pretext deliberately does **not** model is **2D geometry**. Its layout call is "one line, one
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+ width." textpour adds exactly that missing layer:
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+
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+ - **Arbitrary regions, not a scalar width.** A `Region` turns any 2D shape — circles, ellipses,
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+ polygons, boolean unions/intersections/**holes**, SVG paths, glyph outlines, raster alpha masks —
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+ into the per-row spans Pretext consumes. Pretext has no notion of a shape, a hole, or an outline.
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+ - **Multiple disjoint spans per line — the "cursor trick."** Pouring a single row across the left
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+ *and* right of a hole (a donut), or into the prongs of a concave shape, in reading order on one
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+ baseline. Pretext's one-line-one-width API can't natively continue a row across a gap; textpour
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+ threads one cursor through every span on the row.
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+ - **Auto-fit to a region** — binary-search the font size that exactly fills a shape. Pretext keys
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+ layout on `(text, font)`; it doesn't size-to-fit a 2D area.
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+ - **A render-agnostic plan/paint kernel** — geometry computed once, painted by pluggable
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+ `Renderer`s (Canvas2D today, HTML-in-Canvas later).
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+ - **Cursor ↔ point mapping** for hit-testing/caret in custom-rendered text.
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+
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+ Honest overlap: textpour targets the **published `@chenglou/pretext@0.0.1`**, whose API is just
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+ `prepareWithSegments` + `layoutNextLine`. So textpour's own justification, soft-hyphenation, and
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+ balanced-lines are pragmatic implementations over that minimal surface — when Pretext ships its
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+ richer API (Knuth–Plass justify, real hyphenation, `walkLineRanges`), textpour will defer to those
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+ and keep only the geometry it uniquely contributes.
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+
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+ In one line: **Pretext breaks the lines; textpour decides the shape those lines fill.**
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+
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+ ## Quickstart
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ npm install
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+ npm test # builds, runs the pure-logic test suite (56 specs)
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+ npm run build # emits dist/
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+ # demo (needs a browser + http):
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+ npx http-server . # or any static server
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+ # open /demo/index.html
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Status
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+
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+ **Phase 0** (kernel scaffold) and **Phase 1** (shape-flow quality — justification, soft-hyphenation,
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+ balanced lines, auto-fit, region-from-outline, conservative band sampling) are complete and tested
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+ (56 specs). See **ROADMAP.md** for what's next — the HTML-in-Canvas renderer (Phase 2), then the
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+ flagship "shaped CSS text on a 3D surface" demo (Phase 3).
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+
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+ ## Docs
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+
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+ - **EXPLAINER.md** — plain-words overview, ELI5, and the origin story (start here for the why).
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+ - **CLAUDE.md** — how to work in this repo (conventions, commands, guardrails).
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+ - **SPEC.md** — the full design, API reference, and the relationship to Pretext + HTML-in-Canvas.
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+ - **ROADMAP.md** — phased tasks with acceptance + kill criteria.
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+
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+ ## Example
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+
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+ ```ts
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+ import { shapeFlow, circle, subtract, Canvas2DRenderer, PretextLineSource } from 'textpour';
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+
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+ const source = new PretextLineSource(longText, '17px Georgia'); // one prepare pass
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+ const region = subtract(circle(220, 220, 160), circle(220, 220, 67)); // a donut
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+ const result = shapeFlow(source, region, { lineHeight: 24, ascent: 18 });
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+
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+ new Canvas2DRenderer('17px Georgia', { color: '#1a1a1a' }).render(result, ctx);
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+ // result.overflow / result.endCursor drive auto-fit and multi-region pagination
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+ ```
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+ MIT.
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  "name": "textpour",
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- "version": "0.1.0",
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+ "version": "0.1.1",
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  "description": "Pour text into arbitrary shapes — a render-agnostic text-geometry kernel on top of @chenglou/pretext (shape-flow + cursor<->point mapping, pluggable paint adapters).",
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  "type": "module",
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  "main": "./dist/src/index.js",