Introduction In a previous post I promised to write a short introduction to libotf; however, before discussing libotf I need to “set the scene” and write something about logical vs display (visual) order and “shaping engines”. This post covers a…
Introduction I’ve been thinking about the next article in this series and what should it address so I’ve decided to skip ahead and give a summary of the documentation, tools and libraries which made it possible for me to experiment…
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,…
I promised to finish the series on Unicode and UTF-8 so here is the final instalment, better late than never. Before reading this article I suggest that you read Part 1 and Part 2 which cover some important background. As…