Exciting Peter. Please apply! Start some PRs asap.
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 3:15 PM peter frane <peter.frane@gmail.com> wrote:
To whom it may concern,
I am interested in contributing to Project 4. Dynamic text rendering with
support for UTF-8 and FreeType-compatible fonts.
I am currently enrolled at Datacamp where I have been studying Data
Analysis with Python, R, and SQL since November 2022. I am also proficient
in computer graphics, especially text rendering (baseline alignment,
kerning/spacing, subpixel glyph rendering/positioning, etc.) and font
handling. I have written a library for subsetting Type 1 fonts, which are
widely used in TeX/LaTeX typesetting, and a couple of programs for
converting OpenType fonts to WOFF and vice versa for embedding in Web pages.
I have written a program that converts TeX/LaTeX math to MathML and also a
library that converts Presentation MathML into other formats such as EMF,
PDF, PNG, and SVG. The former maps LaTeX symbols to their Unicode
equivalent (UTF-8 or UTF-32). The latter library uses FreeType for the
Linux version. Together, these two can address the LaTeX rendering in FURY:
LaTeX to MathML to image.
However, these libraries are written in C++ and my knowledge of Python is
basic. Still, I'm a fast learner and my in-depth knowledge of text
formatting and fonts will prove valuable to your project.
I would like to discuss more of these in an interview, and I look forward
to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Peter D. Frane, Jr.
P.S. My GitHub projects are at https://github.com/pgfjr?tab=repositories.
My MathML library is at https://reformath.webnode.page/.
Eleftherios Garyfallidis