Pre-processing Arabic text Just a quick example of colouring Arabic glyphs via the XeTeX engine (XeLaTeX) using a pre-processor written in C (via FreeType and libotf). The glyph paths were obtained via FreeType and written out as TeX files that…
A quick example… Just a quick example of importing the Cairo graphics clock into the latest XeTeX engine (using XeLaTeX). Crop marks were added using a raw \special{pdf: bop …} command. Download PDF
Cairo graphics Cairo is an excellent graphics library, albeit a little tricky to build on Windows. After successfully compiling it as a static library (.lib) I wanted to explore using it to create PDFs containing Arabic. Cairo is a graphics…
A very short post I’ve been reading about SIL International’s Graphite engine and it looks really interesting. I downloaded the code and ran the CMake-based build process through the CMake graphical interface. It didn’t work. Eventually, I found some instructions…
I’m in the middle of writing the first of a new series of articles on using the libotf C library to typeset fully vowelled Arabic. I hope to get the first article finished in the next week or two. In…
Summary This is a lengthy post which covers numerous topics on using fonts with TeX and DVIPS. It was fun to write and program but it certainly absorbed many hours of my evenings and weekends. In some areas I’ve had…