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- Uncategorized (27)
- Site update
- LuaTeX token library: simple example of scanners to mix TeX and MetaPost
- A note on a "gotcha" when Building TeX Live from source (on Windows) [updated]
- TeX’s DVI file preamble: deriving the values of num = 25400000 and den = 473628672
- Lua-scriptable PATGEN – i.e., PATGEN 2.4 with a Lua binding...
- Building LuaTeX 0.80 on Windows and debugging with Eclipse IDE
- Testing embedding some Tweets
- Looking inside TeX: strings and pool files
- RegexBuddy and RegexMagic: Truly superb regular expression tools
- Tip: PCRE, how to fix the stack overflow problem (Windows)
- Minimal FreeType program to dump PostScript font names (with file globbing)
- Random test of a neat widget
- And finally: Funky effects with multiple words and vowel placement!
- Xpost: New open source PostScript interpreter being developed
- Quick tip: Decompressing PDFs for Debugging
- Unicode Version 6.3 is Published
- Commercial tools to manipulate PDF files now made "free"
- Small but significant bug-fix for DVIPS
- A few recollections from my freelance days
- 100 video clips of an interview with Donald Knuth
- This looks useful: Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
- Using boxes and glue in TeX and LaTeX by Nelson H. F. Beebe
- Looking for a new position in publishing
- Apologies for the recent lack of new posts
- Video abstracts from New Journal of Physics
- Three weeks later, who is reading my blog?
- Comments are now enabled
- LuaTeX (40)
- Typesetting Arabic clocks with LuaTeX
- Neat trick with LuaTeX: Passing Lua tables from TeX to Lua
- More progress with HarfBuzz/LuaTeX (update)
- Early results of integrating HarfBuzz into LuaTeX
- Exploring LuaTeX nodes and boxes with Graphviz on Windows
- Happy Days: A fully native Windows Build of LuaTeX using Visual Studio
- Adding a UTF-8-capable regular expression library to LuaTeX
- Browsing LuaTeX source with NetBeans
- Typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX: Part 2 (documentation, tools and libraries)
- LuaCOM: connecting LuaTeX to Windows automation
- Using LuaTeX to create SVG of typeset formulae
- Typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX [via a C plug-in] (Part 1)
- Quick and dirty method for creating spot colours in PDFs
- LuaTeX: visualizing interword glue calculations
- Producing printers crop marks with MetaPost and LuaTeX nodes
- Creating PDF pattern fills with LuaTeX nodes
- Basic example of LuaTeX's process_input_buffer callback
- Wow, it works! (or, nodes and output routines)
- Trivial example of LuaTeX's post_linebreak_filter
- Introduction to LuaTeX (presentation extract)
- Lua code to process a LuaTeX node list
- Hopefully useful example of \directlua{} expansion
- Extending LuaTeX on Windows with plugins (DLLs)
- LuaTeX-related mailing lists and web sites
- LaTeX page layout parameters (Part 2)
- LaTeX page layout parameters (Part 1)
- Custom page layout with LuaTeX (using LaTeX)
- LuaTeX: turbocharged TeX
- Installing on Windows (9)
- Happy Days: A fully native Windows Build of LuaTeX using Visual Studio
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 6: final)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 5)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 4)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 3)
- How to browse the TeX Live repository with TortoiseSVN
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 2a)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 2)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 1)
- Extending with C and DLLs (5)
- Page design (2)
- Examples (20)
- Typesetting Arabic clocks with LuaTeX
- Neat trick with LuaTeX: Passing Lua tables from TeX to Lua
- More progress with HarfBuzz/LuaTeX (update)
- Early results of integrating HarfBuzz into LuaTeX
- Exploring LuaTeX nodes and boxes with Graphviz on Windows
- Using LuaTeX to create SVG of typeset formulae
- Quick and dirty method for creating spot colours in PDFs
- LuaTeX: visualizing interword glue calculations
- Producing printers crop marks with MetaPost and LuaTeX nodes
- Creating PDF pattern fills with LuaTeX nodes
- Basic example of LuaTeX's process_input_buffer callback
- Wow, it works! (or, nodes and output routines)
- Creating graphics with LuaTeX nodes
- Trivial example of LuaTeX's post_linebreak_filter
- Introduction to LuaTeX (presentation extract)
- Lua code to process a LuaTeX node list
- Hopefully useful example of \directlua{} expansion
- LuaTeX can connect to networks
- \directlua: writing Lua code in a LuaTeX
- Enabling LuaTeX's use of \pdfoutput
- MathJaX (1)
- Typesetting (8)
- Understanding Arabic vowel placement in OpenType fonts
- The Mysterious etaoin shrdlu
- One way to compile GNU Fribidi as a static library (.lib) using Visual Studio
- Some papers on TeX's math typesetting algorithms
- FriBidi and HarfBuzz: bidirectional text and text-shaping
- Interesting papers on complex script typography
- Life before TeX
- Linotype: The Film
- Unicode (16)
- DTL OTMaster: A superb tool to help understand the OpenType font file format
- Example of adjusting Arabic vowel positions
- Colouring Arabic vowels with XeTeX and a HarfBuzz pre-processor
- Building HarfBuzz as a static library using Microsoft Visual Studio
- Simple tutorial on processing Arabic text using libotf under Windows
- Searching for Arabic text in UTF-8 encoding using PCRE
- Fun with XeTeX: Colouring Arabic glyphs
- Building SIL's Graphite2 on Windows
- Introduction to logical vs display order, and shaping engines
- Typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX: Part 2 (documentation, tools and libraries)
- A nice UTF-8 decoder
- Unicode, Glyph IDs and OpenType: a brief introduction
- Unicode for the impatient (Part 3: UTF-8 bits, bytes and C code)
- Unicode for the impatient (Part 2: UTF-X, what is it?)
- From Unicode code points to Arabic text
- Unicode for the impatient (Part 1: updated)
- Arabic (30)
- Conversion of fully-vowelled typeset Arabic into SVG
- Funky effects with Arabic words
- Funky effects with Arabic glyphs!
- Typesetting Arabic clocks with LuaTeX
- More progress with HarfBuzz/LuaTeX (update)
- Early results of integrating HarfBuzz into LuaTeX
- Example of adjusting Arabic vowel positions
- Colouring Arabic vowels with XeTeX and a HarfBuzz pre-processor
- Building HarfBuzz as a static library using Microsoft Visual Studio
- Understanding Arabic vowel placement in OpenType fonts
- Simple tutorial on processing Arabic text using libotf under Windows
- Searching for Arabic text in UTF-8 encoding using PCRE
- More fun with XeTeX...
- Fun with XeTeX: Colouring Arabic glyphs
- Example: Importing a Cairo PDF into XeTeX
- Creating a clock with Arabic digits using the Cairo graphics library
- Glyph chart for ScheherazadeRegOT
- One way to compile GNU Fribidi as a static library (.lib) using Visual Studio
- Introduction to logical vs display order, and shaping engines
- Typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX: Part 2 (documentation, tools and libraries)
- From typeset Arabic directly to SVG with LuaTeX
- Typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX [via a C plug-in] (Part 1)
- Excellent tutorial on Uniscribe
- Unicode for the impatient (Part 3: UTF-8 bits, bytes and C code)
- The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)
- FriBidi and HarfBuzz: bidirectional text and text-shaping
- Brilliant resources for learning Arabic
- Typesetting and algorithms (18)
- Funky effects with Arabic words
- Funky effects with Arabic glyphs!
- Typesetting Arabic clocks with LuaTeX
- More progress with HarfBuzz/LuaTeX (update)
- Early results of integrating HarfBuzz into LuaTeX
- Example of adjusting Arabic vowel positions
- Colouring Arabic vowels with XeTeX and a HarfBuzz pre-processor
- Building HarfBuzz as a static library using Microsoft Visual Studio
- Understanding Arabic vowel placement in OpenType fonts
- Example: Importing a Cairo PDF into XeTeX
- Creating a clock with Arabic digits using the Cairo graphics library
- One way to compile GNU Fribidi as a static library (.lib) using Visual Studio
- Introduction to logical vs display order, and shaping engines
- Typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX: Part 2 (documentation, tools and libraries)
- Excellent tutorial on Uniscribe
- FriBidi and HarfBuzz: bidirectional text and text-shaping
- Interesting papers on complex script typography
- Compiling the FriBidi Unicode bidi algorithm on Windows
- Unicode (14)
- Example of adjusting Arabic vowel positions
- Colouring Arabic vowels with XeTeX and a HarfBuzz pre-processor
- Building HarfBuzz as a static library using Microsoft Visual Studio
- Understanding Arabic vowel placement in OpenType fonts
- Simple tutorial on processing Arabic text using libotf under Windows
- Searching for Arabic text in UTF-8 encoding using PCRE
- More fun with XeTeX...
- Glyph chart for ScheherazadeRegOT
- One way to compile GNU Fribidi as a static library (.lib) using Visual Studio
- Introduction to logical vs display order, and shaping engines
- Typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX [via a C plug-in] (Part 1)
- Excellent tutorial on Uniscribe
- Unicode for the impatient (Part 3: UTF-8 bits, bytes and C code)
- From Unicode code points to Arabic text
- Node.js (3)
- TeX (general) (8)
- Looking inside TeX: C helps me to see
- TeX's "badness" function in C
- What is TeX's memoryword structure in C?
- Type 42 PostScript fonts with DVIPS: FreeType, LCDF Typetools and re-encoding
- Former commercial Windows TeX distribution (C source code) released under GNU GPL
- Some papers on TeX's math typesetting algorithms
- Detexify: such a clever tool for LaTeX
- Some TeX projects on code.google.com
- Web tools and technologies (4)
- CouchDB etc (1)
- Microsoft Word (3)
- OpenType (6)
- DTL OTMaster: A superb tool to help understand the OpenType font file format
- Type 42 PostScript fonts with DVIPS: FreeType, LCDF Typetools and re-encoding
- Introduction to logical vs display order, and shaping engines
- Typesetting Arabic with LuaTeX: Part 2 (documentation, tools and libraries)
- Fun with FreeType and libotf
- Thank you Microsoft, here's why!
- PDF technical (7)
- Building LuaTeX using Microsoft Visual Studio... Why?
- Example: Importing a Cairo PDF into XeTeX
- Creating a clock with Arabic digits using the Cairo graphics library
- Quick and dirty method for creating spot colours in PDFs
- Creating PDF pattern fills with LuaTeX nodes
- Evince PDF viewer: a Windows productivity tool
- PoDoFoBrowser: free tool to view PDF internals
- Videos (1)
- Web2C, tangle, weave, WEB (3)
- C programming (miscellaneous) (17)
- Building Cairo 1.12.16 as a .lib on Windows using Visual Studio
- Looking inside TeX: C helps me to see
- RegexBuddy and RegexMagic: Truly superb regular expression tools
- TeX's "badness" function in C
- What is TeX's memoryword structure in C?
- Early results of integrating HarfBuzz into LuaTeX
- Happy Days: A fully native Windows Build of LuaTeX using Visual Studio
- Colouring Arabic vowels with XeTeX and a HarfBuzz pre-processor
- Type 42 PostScript fonts with DVIPS: FreeType, LCDF Typetools and re-encoding
- Compiling LCDF Typetools under Windows using MinGW
- Porting and building Web2C.exe for Windows
- C, the Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie
- One way to compile GNU Fribidi as a static library (.lib) using Visual Studio
- Full getopt Port for Unicode and Multibyte Microsoft Visual C, C++, or MFC Projects
- Former commercial Windows TeX distribution (C source code) released under GNU GPL
- Unicode for the impatient (Part 3: UTF-8 bits, bytes and C code)
- Extending LuaTeX on Windows with plugins (DLLs)
- Post about about fonts, glyphs and characters (11)
- Conversion of fully-vowelled typeset Arabic into SVG
- DTL OTMaster: A superb tool to help understand the OpenType font file format
- More progress with HarfBuzz/LuaTeX (update)
- Understanding Arabic vowel placement in OpenType fonts
- Simple tutorial on processing Arabic text using libotf under Windows
- Building SIL's Graphite2 on Windows
- Glyph chart for ScheherazadeRegOT
- Type 42 PostScript fonts with DVIPS: FreeType, LCDF Typetools and re-encoding
- Compiling LCDF Typetools under Windows using MinGW
- Introduction to logical vs display order, and shaping engines
- Unicode, Glyph IDs and OpenType: a brief introduction
- Minimal TeX system (7)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 6: final)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 5)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 4)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 3)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 2a)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 2)
- A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 1)
- MetaPost/MPlib (2)
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