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DTL OTMaster: A superb tool to help understand the OpenType font file format
Introduction Microsoft’s official specification for the OpenType font file format is a somewhat dry and, of course, a very technical document. Reading through it is not a task for the faint-hearted! I’m interested to understand some parts of it so…
And finally: Funky effects with multiple words and vowel placement!
(You’ll need to download the PDF or zoom in with the Google PDF viewer). Just to complete the work: “funky effects” with multiple words and vowel positioning according to OpenType mark-to-base rules in the font. Download PDF
Funky effects with Arabic words
This post covers applying “funky effects” to whole Arabic words – extending the work noted in my previous posts. It was was quite tricky to join a sequence of letters to form whole Arabic words as a single outline path,…
Funky effects with Arabic glyphs!
Over the last few evenings I’ve been exploring Bézier curves and effects that can be achieved through “flattening” glyph paths. I found a great C++ library called Clipper which lets you perform a number of interesting operations on polygons. After…
Typesetting Arabic clocks with LuaTeX
Just a short post to share an example of producing clock faces with Arabic numbers using LuaTeX’s nodes and glue. No drawing packages were used, all done with pdf_literal nodes and some basic trigonometry to calculate positions of the numbers,…