Introduction Using an external pre-processor (built using HarfBuzz) you can achieve affects that are not possible (or, at least, not easy) directly with XeTeX. Here’s a simple example of colouring Arabic vowels – this example is likely to be possible…
Introduction: A very brief post This is an extremely short post to note one way of building the superb HarfBuzz OpenType shaping library as a static library on Windows (i.e., a .lib) – using an elderly version of Visual Studio…
Introduction This post could easily turn into the length of a small book if I covered all the background material that may be required for a full understanding. I simply cannot justify the time it would take to explore everything…
A quick example… Just a quick example of importing the Cairo graphics clock into the latest XeTeX engine (using XeLaTeX). Crop marks were added using a raw \special{pdf: bop …} command. Download PDF
Cairo graphics Cairo is an excellent graphics library, albeit a little tricky to build on Windows. After successfully compiling it as a static library (.lib) I wanted to explore using it to create PDFs containing Arabic. Cairo is a graphics…
Introduction and caveat reader Yesterday I spent about half an hour seeing if I could get GNU Fribidi C library (version 0.19.2) to build as a static library (.lib) under Windows, using Visual Studio. Well, I cheated a bit and…