It has been a busy few weeks with career issues, general directions in life, and painting and decorating a new extension to our home so that has had to take priority over blogging…. However, I soon hope to resume a…
Shasha is an Arabic font tailored for optimum usage on screens. Created with funding from Google, the following blog is designed to document the entire process.
I’ve recently been thinking about the future of the “authorship experience”: using pure browser-based editing environments to write scholarly/scientific papers. For highly mathematical work there may be some way to go before this is commonplace but this tool shows an…
Introduction As mentioned in the previous post, a vast amount of information on Unicode is widely available so I won’t waste your reading time by repeating it here. What I will try to add is some additional explanations to fill…
In Unicode, the range (in hex) 0600 to 06FF is used for Arabic characters. Each value in the range 0600 to 06FF is referred to as a code point. In simple terms, just think of it as a number allocated…
Over the last few weeks I have been reading extensively about Unicode, OpenType, UTF-8 plus a whole set of technologies related to typesetting complex scripts (Arabic) with LuaTeX. It is, for sure, a pretty complex picture so I thought I…