Conversion of fully-vowelled typeset Arabic into SVG
Just a random test Just trying out conversion of fully-vowelled typeset Arabic into SVG: using three different fonts. Seems to work.
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Funky effects with Arabic words
This post covers applying “funky effects” to whole Arabic words – extending the work noted in my previous posts. It was was quite tricky to join a sequence of letters to form whole Arabic words as a single outline path,…
Funky effects with Arabic glyphs!
Over the last few evenings I’ve been exploring Bézier curves and effects that can be achieved through “flattening” glyph paths. I found a great C++ library called Clipper which lets you perform a number of interesting operations on polygons. After…
Typesetting Arabic clocks with LuaTeX
Just a short post to share an example of producing clock faces with Arabic numbers using LuaTeX’s nodes and glue. No drawing packages were used, all done with pdf_literal nodes and some basic trigonometry to calculate positions of the numbers,…
More progress with HarfBuzz/LuaTeX (update)
Just a short post to share another example from my on-going work on HarfBuzz A rather pointless example – without using any code to correctly place mark glyphs (e.g., vowels) – showing randomly coloured Arabic glyphs. Thanks to the power…
Early results of integrating HarfBuzz into LuaTeX
Building on the work of porting LuaTeX to build on Windows I decided to explore adding HarfBuzz to provide Arabic shaping. The excellent HarfBuzz API lends itself to some interesting solutions so here’s a quick post to show some early…