The Handbook

The Get Started guide covers the basics: installing the library, rendering your first character, combining characters into words and sentences, and applying simple styling. If you haven't gone through it yet, start there.

The Handbook picks up where Get Started leaves off. Each section goes deeper into a specific area, teaching you the full capabilities of the library.

What's Covered

Writing

How to express meaning: compound characters, the indicator system, shape primitives, Latin and Cyrillic text, and custom character definitions.

Appearance

How to control appearance: colors, stroke widths, backgrounds, accessibility metadata, the grid system, and customizing the grid's visual presentation.

Syntax & Options

The complete syntax reference: full grammar specification, the options cascade system, programmatic options via JavaScript, and SVG pass-through attributes.

How to Use the Handbook

The sections build on each other. Writing assumes you know the basics from Get Started, Appearance introduces visual styling and the grid used throughout later sections, and so on. But you can also jump directly to any section if you're looking for something specific.

Each topic is covered in one place. When a page references a concept explained elsewhere, it links to that page rather than re-explaining it.