[Announce] Next improved release of Lohit Devanagari 2.95.0 with Latin and ttfautohinted.
by pravin.d.s＠gmail.com
Last release of Lohit Devanagari we did in Feb 19, 2014. During the
time number of improvements happened in Lohit Devanagari. Today releasing
its next version with all the improvements. [1]
* Following are the improvements:*
1. Added Latin from https://github.com/etunni/lohit-latin
Yes, This happened :)
I would like to thanks Dave for this, who helped to get Latin
for Devanagari done from Eduardo Rodriguez Tunni. Now one will not feel
major difference while rendering of Lohit Devanagari text with Latin since
Lohit has Latin coverage itself.
2. One of the requirement of ttfautohint is to have Latin support in
fonts. (AFAIK) Due to this we were not using ttfautohint for building Lohit
Devanagari. Now since we have Latin in Lohit Devanagari, we have started
building ttf with ttfautohint. It means Lohit Devanagari now requires
ttfautohint as a build requirement.
2. We started compiling feature file with Adobe font development kit.
(AFDKO).
As announced earlier as well.
Feature file of Lohit Devanagari was not compiling in OTM. [2]
Root cause of problem was fontforge is bit relax while validating feature
file. Had good discussion with Dave and Frank on this and finally we
decided to compile feature file with AFDKO. [3]
This also helped us to futher identified issues in feature file
and we fixed those issues in feature file.
3. Updated sfd file with resolved issues regarding marathi locale
(issue id on github: #46,#47)
These were local related issues not tested well earlier.
4. Improved Vedic accent positioning issues. Resolves issue #
https://github.com/pravins/lohit2/issues/11
5. Added new characters uni1cf5 and uni1cf6
Looking forward for Dave's more support to add Latin in all Lohit
script fonts. Enjoy improved version of Lohit Devanagari. Please report if
any issues at github [4]. I have updated fedorahosted.org/lohit [5] page
with download details
I want to verify Lohit Devanagari with Hindi script grammer [6] and
make sure it follows all rules. Soon i am going to ping some linguist who
can help into this.
Cheers,
Pravin Satpute
1.
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-devanagari-ttf-2.95.0.t...
2. https://github.com/pravins/lohit2/issues/13
3. https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko
4. https://github.com/pravins/lohit/issues/new
5. https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/
6. http://www.tdil-dc.in/index.php?option=com_vertical&parentid=79&lang=en
9 years
umefonts
by Karel Volný
Hi.
I've just added a new fonts request onto the wishlist:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ume_fonts
I'm planning to package it myself, unless someone else is interested,
however as I am no font expert I'd appreciate some mentoring ...
I want to have these fonts packages to help with proper packaging of UFO:AI
(bz#1157255).
K.
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9 years, 1 month
my font
by #
Hello,
What i can make a .spec for my conscript font? Where I must put
documentation?
Licence file is obligatory in package? fontconf have any way for ttf font?
Is possible to add script or other way for writing specific alphabet?
Not only 'a' -> sign 'a'
but type 'a' ang read previous letter and put some signs. My font texrg
have dependencies.
Thanks
9 years, 1 month
