{"id":3337,"date":"2014-06-01T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2014-06-01T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T20:10:02","slug":"funky-effects-with-arabic-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/?p=3337","title":{"rendered":"Funky effects with Arabic words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post covers applying &#8220;funky effects&#8221; to whole Arabic words &ndash; 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, but I finally got there. This does not yet include positioning vowels according to OpenType mark-to-base rules in the font&#8230; that&#8217;s next on the list. Code is written in C++ with various classes defined to perform specific tasks (such as write PDF files).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/readytext.co.uk\/files\/offset.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/gview?url=http:\/\/readytext.co.uk\/files\/offset.pdf&#038;embedded=true\" style=\"width:100%; height:600px;\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post covers applying &#8220;funky effects&#8221; to whole Arabic words &ndash; 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, but I finally got there. This does not yet include positioning vowels according to OpenType [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-typesetting-and-algorithms"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","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=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.readytext.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}