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What Every Typesetter Should Know about Renderer Internals

What Every Typesetter Should Know about Renderer Internals

ASS subtitle rendering is seen by many people as some arcane black magic. That's because it is. Luckily, you do not need to understand most of the black magic to learn many meaningful lessons about both the behavior and performance of renderers.

Let's get it over with right away and post the diagram:

A Venn diagram showing two completely disjoint circles. One circle is labeled "What typesetters think is bad for performance." The other circle is labeled "What's actually bad for performance."