Introduction Using the Cairo graphics library (under Windows/Visual Studio) I have, with some caveats, been able to create a direct-to-PDF backend for MetaPost via the brilliant MPlib C library. Of course, Cairo does not support the CMYK colour space which…
One more tiny step toward the objective: auto-annotation of very high quality typeset Arabic. pic.twitter.com/Bnu76ngpVq — Graham Douglas (@publishergeek) October 25, 2014 A little more progress with direct MetaPost –> PDF generation via MPlb. Getting there. Final hurdle is handling…
MetaPost MPlib I’m currently implementing a project built around the MetaPost library MPlib. I managed to build MPlib as a Windows .lib (library) file without “too much” difficulty… In order to understand the workings of the powerful, but complex, MPlib…
Just a random test Just trying out conversion of fully-vowelled typeset Arabic into SVG: using three different fonts. Seems to work.
A real gotcha! (well, it got me) I recently built Cairo 1.12.16 as a Windows .lib file using Visual Studio. Somewhat of a painful process but it seems to work fine. One detail that caught me out (and took hours…
Introduction In this post we’ll cover TeX’s handing of strings and explain .pool files. Using Web2C to build (Knuthian) TeX from Knuth’s TeX.WEB source code involves many steps as explained elsewhere on this site. One of the initial steps when…