Newsletter 13: KAS and KAS-text

content/posts/newsletter-013/index.md

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 [Inline SPIR-V]: https://github.com/PENGUINLIONG/inline-spirv-rs
 [inline-spirv-discussion]: https://reddit.com/r/rust_gamedev/comments/ic1005/inline_spirv
 
+### [KAS] v0.5 and [KAS-text] v0.1
+
+![KAS text layout](kas-text-layout.png)
+
+[KAS] by [@dhardy] is a general purpose UI toolkit; its
+initial aim is "old school" desktop apps with good keyboard and touchscreen
+support. Unlike many modern immediate-mode UIs, KAS's widgets retain state,
+allowing minimal per-frame updates. KAS supports embedded WebGPU graphics now,
+and will (eventually) support being embedded within other contexts (requiring
+only a supply of input events and implemention of some basic graphics routines).
+
+KAS v0.5 switches to a new crate for text layout,
+[KAS-text]. KAS-text is a text layout
+engine supporting multi-line editing, shaping and bidirectional text; future
+versions will also support formatting. KAS-text is not tied to any particular
+raster or render system; its positioned-glyph output is relatively easy to
+adapt to crates like `wgpu_glyph` and `gfx_glyph`.
+For more, see the article ["Why I created KAS-text"][kas-article].
+
+[KAS]: https://github.com/kas-gui/kas
+[KAS-text]: https://github.com/kas-gui/kas-text
+[kas-article]: https://kas-gui.github.io/blog/why-kas-text.html
+[@dhardy]: https://github.com/dhardy
+
 ### [Egui]
 
 [Egui] is a highly portable immediate mode GUI library in pure Rust.