The prestigious open-access journal New Journal of Physics has just launched a video abstracts service for authors, providing a way for authors to personalise their work and bring a new dimension to published papers. The example embedded into this post…
It’s been more than a week since my last post so you may be forgiven for thinking that the blog novelty has worn off, but not so 🙂 Over the last week or so I have been working on building…
For anyone who has an interest in complex script typography, the following papers are likely to be of interest: Edward H. Trager: International Text Layout & Typography: The Big And Future Picture Elika J. Etemad: Robust Vertical Text Layout Why…
I’m exploring the Unicode Bidi Algorithm (UBA) and found the GNU FriBidi implementation of the UBA (in addition to Unicode’s own implementation). The Unicode implementation compiles quite easily with Visual Studio but GNU FriBidi requires MSYS and some code edits,…
In the tutorial series A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows I showed how to get started with a very basic LuaTeX setup for plain TeX. Actually, it is so minimal that we have not even enabled the many new primitives…
Today I came across a really clever use of HTML5 technologies being applied to a common problem in LaTeX: finding the package and code for special symbols. It is called Detexify – it relies on HTML5 features so you need…