Software for Creating New fonts for Linux

[Rishikesh Sharma]

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.


Regards,
Rishikesh Sharma
Fedora Ambassador, Manipur, India.

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:01 +0530, Rishikesh Sharma wrote:
>  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. 
I know of "fontforge," but there may be other software for this purpose
too.  The Artwork team might be the right group to ask; they're on IRC
Freenode at #fedora-art.

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[sankarshan]

Paul W. Frields wrote:

>  I know of "fontforge," but there may be other software for
> this purpose
>  too.  The Artwork team might be the right group to ask; they're on IRC
>  Freenode at #fedora-art. 
To add to this, I passed the mail to the fedora-india list since a
number of the Fedora i18n folks doing Indic i18n and font work are
subscribed there

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R: Software for Creating New fonts for Linux

[Personale]

Very very interesting......

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On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:01 +0530, Rishikesh Sharma wrote:
>  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. 
I know of "fontforge," but there may be other software for this purpose
too.  The Artwork team might be the right group to ask; they're on IRC
Freenode at #fedora-art.

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R: Software for Creating New fonts for Linux

[Rishikesh Sharma]

Thanks Paul W. Frields for your valuable support.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Personale <barbacchi(a)tiscali.it&gt; wrote:

>  Very very interesting......
>
>  -----Messaggio originale-----
>  Da: fedora-ambassadors-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] Per conto di Paul W.
>  Frields
>  Inviato: martedì 16 settembre 2008 13.38
>  A: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
>  Oggetto: Re: [Ambassadors] Software for Creating New fonts for Linux
>
>  On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:01 +0530, Rishikesh Sharma wrote:
>  > 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.
>
>  I know of "fontforge," but there may be other software for this purpose
>  too.  The Artwork team might be the right group to ask; they're on IRC
>  Freenode at #fedora-art.
>
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[Frank Murphy]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 17:01 +0530, Rishikesh Sharma wrote:
>  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. 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts

Would probably give some advise.

FRank
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[Rahul Bhalerao]

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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[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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>  Rahul.
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>   - http://samadiyami.blogspot.com
>   - http://mazikavita.blogspot.com
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