Directory macros/xetex/plain/do-it-yourself-tex
do-it-yourself-tex -- Back to Plain XeTeX
version 1.3 [2019.03.17]
maintainer: Roger Herz-Fischler, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
contact: roger@herz-fischler.ca
web page: http://people.math.carleton.ca/~rhfischl/
The main purpose of this package is to provide easily modifiable forms and macros which illustrate how
plain XeTex can used to produce high quality texts with such features as precise font designations,
imported images, marginal notes, colour, right to left texts and syllabics.
Real examples are provided in both the TeX and PDF versions.
A set of shell files, font tables an HTML page with links to font sources are also included.
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This work is provided in the hope that it may be useful. There are absolutely no restrictions, licenses etc.
as to the use (or non-use!), modification and/or publication of any of the material provided in the package.
Further there are no requirements regarding attribution.
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (7.3M).
do-it-yourself-tex – Back to Plain XeTeX
This package provides a collection of easily modifiable forms, macros and sample texts for use with plain TeX/XeTeX.
Plain TeX, as demonstrated by the myriad of articles and books dating from before the advent of LaTeX, is capable of producing fine typography. It has the advantage of not being as obscure as far as macros, font designation etc. are concerned, and this package is intended to be another contribution to the repertoire in terms of macros, forms and examples.
XeTeX, which works without the necessity of further manipulation of classical TeX documents, has the further advantage of understanding Unicode, for which many open source fonts are available. In additon, XeTeX’s immediate output is an extended variant of DVI format, which is ordinarily processed by a tightly bound processor (called xdvipdfmx) that produces PDF, i.e. if you type: xetex file_01.tex, you obtain: file_01.pdf.
This package provides easily modifiable forms and macros which illustrate how plain XeTeX can be used to produce high quality texts with such features as precise font designations, imported images, marginal notes, colour, right to left texts and syllabics. Real examples are provided in both the TeX and PDF versions. A set of shell files, font tables, and an HTML page with links to font sources are also provided.
| Package | do-it-yourself-tex |
| Home page | http://people.math.carleton.ca/~rhfischl |
| Version | 1.3 2019-03-17 |
| Licenses | Public Domain Software |
| Maintainer | Roger Herz-Fischler |
| Topics | XeTeX Tutorial plainTeX Use XeTeX |
