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E.P. Unny is a notable Indian political cartoonist, who worked/works with famed Shankar’s Weekly and news papers such as The Hindu and Indian Express. Since 2020, all his cartoons (also 2025, 2026 so far) are published — every week — open-access by Sayahna Foundation. Unny was using a font based on his handwriting style for […]
After my talk about TeX syntax-highlighting font at TUG2025 conference, then vice-president of TeX Users Group, Boris Veytsman approached me with a proposal to develop a Math counterpart for the beautiful Arsenal font designed by Andrij Shevchenko. What followed was a deep dive into the TeXbook to learn about math font parameters, OpenType Math specification, […]
At the TUG2025 conference, I presented a talk about the development of a new colour font, which does automatic syntax highlighting for TeX documents/snippets. The idea was floated by CVR, and was inspired by a prior-art of HTML/CSS syntax highlighting font by Heikki Lotvonen. Syntax highlighting is achieved by specialized grammar files or packages on […]