2009/10/13 18:17
After the Mac arrived last week, one of the first programs I installed was TeXShop.That caused me to play around with XeTeX, which – although it's also available for Linux – I had never really got around to playing around with.One interesting feature I noticed immediately was the maps: When loading a font one can specify an input mapping like...
2012/01/08 0:13
Yesterday’s blog posting made me think about the lack of a symbol for “is pronounced the same as”.
What I mean is that instead of writing that “write is pronounced the same as right“, we could just write “write ≗ right“.
I here used the symbol “≗”, not because I think it’s ideal, but because it’s available. Other available Unicode characters based on the equal sign include the following: ≘ ≙ ≚ ≛ ≜ ≝ ≞
However, ideally I think I’d want square brackets on top of an equal sign because pronunciations are given in square brackets, like this:
Does anybody know of any existing symbol that has been used for this?
2009/05/27 16:53
When we set up our company, we needed some business cards.VistaPrint will make business cards from a PDF file made according to the following specifications: "Full Bleed Size: 90mm x 52mm; Document Trim Size: 87mm x 49mm".I prefer doing typography in LaTeX, so I just needed to set this up properly.I had a few problems with the margins, but with some help from DK-TUG's mailing list, I came up with the following:\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{memoir} \setstocksize{52mm}{90mm} \setpagecc{49mm}{87mm}{*} \settypeblocksize{43mm}{81mm}{*} \setulmargins{3mm}{*}{*} \setlrmargins{3mm}{*}{*} \setheadfoot{0.1pt}{0.1pt} \setheaderspaces{1pt}{*}{*} \checkandfixthelayout[fixed]...
2008/07/22 22:56
Normally when you design a font these days, you use a program like FontForge, which is basically a glorified drawing program.You can do anything you want, but it's basically up to you to make the individual characters looks similar so that they combine to form a unified and beautiful font.If you use a program like METAFONT instead, you have more...
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