About this blog

I enjoy technical writing and, for me, this blog is a “creative outlet” where I can share/document some of my interests in low-level technical aspects of tools and technologies related to the authorship of technical content: graphics, PDF, typesetting, text processing, OpenType/fonts, Unicode and digital/electronic publishing. As you might infer from this blog, I’m interested in Arabic text processing/typesetting, XeTeX, and LuaTeX too! I can see many applications of these incredible TeX engines, particularly LuaTeX, through extensions via DLLs. XeTeX’s built-in font handling and OpenType shaping engine(s) are also amazingly useful.

I’ve owned the domain readytext.co.uk for many years, and on 1 January 2011, purely on a whim, I finally decided to use it. This site was launched, if you can call it that, at around 3 p.m. UK time. Stay tuned, and, most definitely, don’t drop out.

Contact

You can contact me on Twitter as @publishergeek