Lohit2: Next one is Lohit Assamese and Bengali fonts improvement

[Pravin Satpute]

Hi,

  In last six month we have completed Devanagari (Marathi and Nepali),
Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Malayalam under lohit2 project [1]. We have done
significant improvement in these fonts not only from technical
perspective but also from standards perspective. I am confident enough
to say Lohit follows all standards around fonts and Indian languages and
scripts.

  I attended typoday.in [2] conference in last weekend and talked with
people around on lohit2. Happy to see number of people in fonts industry
are aware regarding Lohit fonts. Few people even used Lohit fonts during
the workshop to demonstrate some points. Few people proposed enhancement
by adding more ligature. So we all are going good :)

  This is time to do improvements in Lohit Assamese and Bengali.
Followings are improvements we are looking for..

  * Removing not required ligatures.
  * Rewriting efficient open type tables.
  * Support to the "beng" and "bng2" open type script tags.
  * Building fonts through feature file (.fea)
  * Following AGL specification syntax.
  * Testing on Harfbuzz NG, Uniscribe(W8). 
  * Automated Testing Tool utilization


    One of the important task prior to development is to identify
guidelines, specifications for Assamese and Bengali script. We do have
TDIL documents available and will see if there is any other. With these
improvements i am sure Lohit Assamese and Bengali can become standard
reference font for upcoming Bengali fonts project.

    Need help from Assamese and Bengali language expert. I know few
already and will ping them for more input during the developments.
Development activity is going to happen in lohit2 [3] git. Feel free to
report bug and propose enhancements.

Best Regards,
Pravin Satpute



1.
http://pravin-s.blogspot.in/2013/08/project-creating-standard-and-reusabl...
2. http://typoday.in/
3. https://github.com/pravins/lohit2