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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DTL OTMaster: A superb tool to help understand the OpenType font file format
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…
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…
Understanding Arabic vowel placement in OpenType fonts
Introduction This post could easily turn into the length of a small book if I covered all the background material that may be required for a full understanding. I simply cannot justify the time it would take to explore everything…
Simple tutorial on processing Arabic text using libotf under Windows
Notes and comments are inline with the C code A fairly basic example to explain a bit about libotf: just to “get started”. To run this, I built libotf (and FreeType) as static libraries and linked against them.
Building SIL’s Graphite2 on Windows
A very short post I’ve been reading about SIL International’s Graphite engine and it looks really interesting. I downloaded the code and ran the CMake-based build process through the CMake graphical interface. It didn’t work. Eventually, I found some instructions…