{"id":3317,"date":"2014-05-15T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T00:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2014-06-01T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T16:04:47","slug":"typesetting-arabic-clocks-with-luatex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/?p=3317","title":{"rendered":"Typesetting Arabic clocks with LuaTeX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short post to share an example of producing clock faces with Arabic numbers using LuaTeX&#8217;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, angles for clock hands and values of glue to move things around. I will try to write-up  the code\/techniques in a future post. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/readytext.co.uk\/files\/araclocks.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=http:\/\/readytext.co.uk\/files\/araclocks.pdf&#038;embedded=true\" style=\"width:100%; height:800px;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a short post to share an example of producing clock faces with Arabic numbers using LuaTeX&#8217;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, angles for clock hands and values of glue to move things around. I will try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-examples","category-luatex","category-typesetting-and-algorithms"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3345,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}