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…
I just love this story, from a preview trailer of Linotype: The Film.
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…
Just a brief post to share a list of papers which describe many interesting and low-level details of math typesetting, including TeX’s algorithms and math fonts. Appendix G Illuminated, by Bogusław Jackowski. Understanding the aesthetics of math typesetting, by Ulrik…
It’s been more than a week since my last post so you may be forgiven for thinking that the blog novelty has worn off, but not so 🙂 Over the last week or so I have been working on building…
For anyone who has an interest in complex script typography, the following papers are likely to be of interest: Edward H. Trager: International Text Layout & Typography: The Big And Future Picture Elika J. Etemad: Robust Vertical Text Layout Why…