How Codex aligns SVG text on GitHub
Really all the hard problems have been solved. Use markdown so that writing isn’t too verbose. Make fancy text effects in SVG. Don’t actually make your own SVG, use a little service that generates it.
All that’s left is the question of how to line up the baseline of text inside an SVG image with the baseline of the text outside.
Codex (“Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent”) seems to have a way to do it.
Sort of. It’s not perfect.
What are they doing?
**<sub><sub></sub></sub> Reject f... on unsupported backends**
They add <sub> (subscript) until it’s approximately right.
I recently used Codex on a pull request at work. Or more notably, my reviewer said I could merge my branch if Codex didn’t have anything major problem with it.
My last post was about either Visual Studio Code extension name requirements or Why we haven’t gotten a new major salad green for this long and how they made sure of that. Find out which.