Introduction Microsoft’s official specification for the OpenType font file format is a somewhat dry and, of course, a very technical document. Reading through it is not a task for the faint-hearted! I’m interested to understand some parts of it so…
Summary This is a lengthy post which covers numerous topics on using fonts with TeX and DVIPS. It was fun to write and program but it certainly absorbed many hours of my evenings and weekends. In some areas I’ve had…
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 short post to share a wonderful C library I recently came across: libotf which provides a really nice API for working with OpenType fonts. Of course, LuaTeX already has excellent support of OpenType fonts through the use of…
I am a massive fan of open source software and enjoy the freedom of being able to download source code via SVN (e.g., LuaTeX and GhostScript). I subscribe to numerous mailing lists to keep up-to-date with various open source distributions…