fonts March 2014

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Web Interface for Font Compare
by Mayank Jha 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

I was wanting to have a web interface for the font quality metric tool FontCompare<https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/tree/master/pycontrib/FontCompare>, which I developed last summer. It is now a plugin for fontforge and I am maintaining it currently. I wished to know if it suited for a GSoC Summer Project Idea 2014 ? -- Mayank Jha http://mjnovice.wordpress.com/

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Using TT_NAME_ID_SAMPLE_TEXT
by Richard Hughes 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

Hi, I'm asking a couple of things -- is TT_NAME_ID_SAMPLE_TEXT specified anywhere? I'd expect it to contain something like "How quickly daft jumping zebras vex" but I wanted to check that was indeed the kind of thing it might show. The seconds is really asking why so few fonts actually use this metadata item :) Would it be possible to add these in at package build time, as showing something like "Sample text" using Lohit-Punjabi.ttf doesn't make sense at all. I'm also needing a much shorter text string for the icon (e.g. "Aa") but I guess keying on 'lang' is the best way to do this. Thanks, Richard.

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Re: Using TT_NAME_ID_SAMPLE_TEXT
by Richard Hughes 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

On 10 March 2014 14:46, Paul Flo Williams <paul(a)frixxon.co.uk> wrote: >> Is there any precedent here? Like a Punjabi version of "How quickly >> daft jumping zebras vex" that shows off the majority of the glyphs? > http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pangrams Yes, I saw that, but it doesn't seem to map the locale to the string, just some languages. I figured (hoped) there'd be some kind of wiki page with locale -> example text. Richard

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Release of Lohit Odia 2.5.5 with names change from Oriya to Odia
by Pravin Satpute 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

Hi All, If you recall we had earlier discussion regarding changing name of Lohit Oriya to Lohit Odia. [1] We had a chance to do it with lohit2 project with number of improvements as we done for Lohit Gurmukhi. Still i think we are already late for doing this change considering feeling from Odia community around. So without doing any further delay this is the release specifically for renaming Lohit Oriya to Odia. I have updated lohit fedorahosted [2] page for download details. Let me know if anything more needed in this regards. Thanks, Pravin Satpute 1. https://www.redhat.com/archives/lohit-devel-list/2013-December/msg00001.html 2. https://fedorahosted.org/lohit

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fontconfig config description
by Akira TAGOH 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

Hi, I'm adding a feature to enable/disable the fontconfig configuration files from packages for users and per-users in fonts-tweak-tool and almost has already been implemented in git. I believe this feature allows more customization around fonts. One problem on this is, it is quite hard to see what it is for from those filenames. those might contains multiple rulesets too. So I'd like to propose adding the description in the certain syntax to the files and the template. and according to this change I'd encourage packagers to have a separate rulesets if it's useful to do so. Any comments? --- Akira TAGOH

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Lohit2: Next one is Lohit Assamese and Bengali fonts improvement
by Pravin Satpute 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

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-reusable.… 2. http://typoday.in/ 3. https://github.com/pravins/lohit2

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