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…
Category Post about about fonts, glyphs and characters
Type 42 PostScript fonts with DVIPS: FreeType, LCDF Typetools and re-encoding
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…
Compiling LCDF Typetools under Windows using MinGW
Introduction This is just a short post to share a workaround to a problem I ran into when building Eddie Kohler’s superb LCDF Typetools under Windows using MinGW. After running ./configure to create the make files I hit a problem…
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…
Unicode, Glyph IDs and OpenType: a brief introduction
As you read about OpenType fonts and Unicode you come across terms such as “Glyph IDs”, Unicode characters/code points and suchlike. And this can be a bit puzzling: what’s the relationship between them? In this post I’ll try to give…