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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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…
Introduction to logical vs display order, and shaping engines
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…
Typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX [via a C plug-in] (Part 1)
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…
Excellent tutorial on Uniscribe
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,…