The C source code of the once commercial Y&Y TeX distribution (for Windows) was donated to the TeX User Group after Y&Y TeX Inc ceased trading. I bought a copy the Y&Y TeX system in the late 1990s and certainly…
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…
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…
Introduction I’ve been thinking about the next article in this series and what should it address so I’ve decided to skip ahead and give a summary of the documentation, tools and libraries which made it possible for me to experiment…
Introduction The Windows operating system provides a technology called COM, which stands for Component Object Model. In essence, it provides a way for software components and applications to “talk to each other”. That’s a gross oversimplification but it gives the…
Introduction This is a current work-in-progress so I’ll keep it brief and outline the ideas. There are, of course, a number of tools available to generate SVG from TeX or, more correctly, SVG from DVI. Indeed, I wrote one such…