SUMMARY Multilingual information processing technology has enabled us to handle the text of many languages and scripts. Technical difficulties, however, still remain in the field of displaying and printing text. Windowing systems and printers often lack support for scripts that are not widely used and there has been no simple and flexible remedy for this problem. In this paper, we describe the ...

\usepackage{FAMILY} where FAMILY is given in the subsection titles below. The body font in this document is from the TEX Gyre Bonum family, selected by a \usepackage{tgbonum} command in the document preamble, but the samples illustrate scores other font families. Like Computer Modern, Latin Modern, and the commercial Lucida and MathTime families, the TEX Gyre families offer extensive collection...

The TUG’2001 Font Panel convened on Thursday, August 16, 2001, with members William Adams, Nelson H. F. Beebe (chair), Barbara Beeton, Hans Hagen, Alan Hoenig, and Ross Moore, with active participation by several attendees in the audience. The list of topics that was projected on the screen makes up the sectional headings in what follows, and the topics are largely independent. Any errors or om...

This paper explains how one writes formal specifications of font encodings for LATEX and suggests a ratification procedure for such specifications.

Computer-aided font design is still a very tedious and repetitive task. New font models and new functionalities presented by digital media further require a new method for design of font families and dynamic variable fonts. Current design paradigms are either outline based, offering low level operations, or parametric but non-visual programming. Parametric feature based design helps in creating...

In this paper, we present multi-font printed Arabic text recognition using hidden Markov models (HMMs). We propose a novel approach to the sliding window technique for feature extraction. The size and position of the cells of the sliding window adapt to the writing line of Arabic text and ink-pixel distributions. We employ a two-step approach for mixed-font text recognition, in which the input ...