Just a brief post With the explosive growth of interest in “eBooks” and the use of SVG in EPUB3, I thought it would be worth experimenting to see how “easy” it was to produce SVG directly from typeset Arabic: using…
Introduction In this new series of posts I’m going to attempt an overview of the topics, concepts, ideas and technologies involved in typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX, via a DLL I’m writing in C. Actually, the C code is very substantially…
If you are interested in complex script typography and, in particular, exploring the Windows Uniscribe engine then this series of tutorials will be invaluable and save you a lot of time. Also provided is the C source code of Neatpad,…
Introduction Just a short post, this time with my first venture into screencasts. No sound in this one, sorry, but there will be in any future videos. From LuaTeX to Word The following simple demo shows equation material in LuaTeX…
Just received notification of this: “Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful open source UNIX applications compiled as native win32 binaries. It is designed to…
Introduction Just a 10-minute hack to explore putting spot colours into a PDF via pdf_colorstack nodes. I don’t have access to Acrobat Professional at the moment to check the separations properly, so treat this as an “alpha” method (i.e., not…