Re: [Ambassadors] Software for Creating New fonts for Linux

[Rishikesh Sharma]

Thanks again Rahul for your support.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Rahul Bhalerao <b.rahul.pm(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote:

>  2008/9/16 Rishikesh Sharma <rishikesh(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
>  > Hi All,
>  >
>  > I want to create a new font and i don't know any open source linux
>  software
>  > to create fonts. I would like to create a font for linux in my script
>  that
>  > is called "Meitei Mayek", a traditional manipuri script. Please guide me
>  how
>  > to create new fonts so that i can contribute fonst in my script "Meitei
>  > Mayek" for fedora.
>  >
>
>  You can use "fontforge" for creating the font. It has good
>  documentation and tutorial on font development here
>  http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ .
>  "Meitei Mayek" character set is not yet encoded in the Unicode (in
>  case you don't know about encoding standards, you may refer
>  www.unicode.org), but even creating a font without encoding is a good
>  starting step to get the activities going up for the script.
>
>
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