**Allison Parrish** @aparrish · 2018-05-14T18:46:09Z

I love this weird typographical illustration for this 1998 xerox patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US6230170B1/en "Spatial morphing of text to accommodate annotations"

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**Gadfly (-booq-)** @gaditb@icosahedron.website · May 14, 2018, 19:19

**Gadfly (-booq-)** @gaditb@icosahedron.website · May 14, 2018, 19:19

@aparrish 1998... has the patent expired? Has anyone tried/how hard would it be to do this in LaTeX?

**Soni L.** @SoniEx2@cybre.space · May 16, 2018, 23:21

**Soni L.** @SoniEx2@cybre.space · May 16, 2018, 23:21

@gaditb @aparrish I can't see this being used anywhere but in a game.

**Gadfly (-booq-)** @gaditb@icosahedron.website · May 16, 2018, 23:49

**Gadfly (-booq-)** @gaditb@icosahedron.website · May 16, 2018, 23:49

@SoniEx2 @aparrish All the world IS a game,
and all the people merely Players...

**Ted Gould** @ted@gould.cx · May 14, 2018, 21:39

**Ted Gould** @ted@gould.cx · May 14, 2018, 21:39

@aparrish I feel like that paragraph needs to talk to its doctor about that growth.

**Logan Turner** @loganturner · May 15, 2018, 00:33

**Logan Turner** @loganturner · May 15, 2018, 00:33

@aparrish That’s amazing! Like a bizarro alternative to now-ubiquitous popovers and anchor links.