More fun with XeTeX…
Just another quick example of colouring Arabic glyphs, showing that you can selectively colour glyph sub-paths. Download PDF
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Fun with XeTeX: Colouring Arabic glyphs
Pre-processing Arabic text Just a quick example of colouring Arabic glyphs via the XeTeX engine (XeLaTeX) using a pre-processor written in C (via FreeType and libotf). The glyph paths were obtained via FreeType and written out as TeX files that…
Example: Importing a Cairo PDF into XeTeX
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
Creating a clock with Arabic digits using the Cairo graphics library
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…
Glyph chart for ScheherazadeRegOT
I’m in the middle of writing the first of a new series of articles on using the libotf C library to typeset fully vowelled Arabic. I hope to get the first article finished in the next week or two. In…
One way to compile GNU Fribidi as a static library (.lib) using Visual Studio
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…