[Lohit-devel-list] Lohit2: Improvement plans for Lohit-Kannada !!

[Pravin Satpute]

On बुधवार 23 ऑक्टोबर 2013 05:18 म.नं., Pavanaja U B wrote:
> Rendering on Win XP will be different from Win7 and later versions in some
> special cases. The Unicode PR-37 was not implemented in the rendering engine
> of Win XP. It was implemented on Win 7 (or was it Vista? Anyhow, nobody is
> using Vista as such :-) ) and later. This is  my understanding.

Yes, do agree.
Supporting both knda and knd2 is challenging. But we have to try for it
since Lohit fonts are used as a Web fonts as well and it should render
correctly on most of the platform. I think by Alpha release we will have
better picture.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute



> Regards,
> Pavanaja
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pravin Satpute [mailto:psatpute at redhat.com] 
> Sent: 23 October 2013 16:57
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> Subject: Lohit2: Improvement plans for Lohit-Kannada !!
>
> Hi All,
>
>     First some update on existing activities of lohit2 project, planning for
> Lohit-Devanagari Beta and Lohit-Gujarati Alpha release by the next week.
>
>     Regarding Lohit-Kannada other than same improvements for other script
> fonts like
>
>     1. Following AGL while renaming lohit-gujarati
>     2. Feature file separate as done in lohit-devanagari
>     3. Supporting "knda" and "knd2" Opent type tag
>     4. Thorough testing with Harfbuzz and Uniscribe (will test with Windows
> XP as well to make sure webfonts will render correctly everywhere)
>
>     There are some more things needs attention
>
>     1. Removing unnecessary glyphs. Bug for that already reported by
> Shriramana [a]
>     2. Some other needed attentions are [b][c]
>
>     From designing perspective, i dont know why each glyph in Lohit Kannada
> carries negative witdh, see right bearing. It will be good if we can get rid
> of it. It will be appreciated if someone can help me to fix this.
>
>     These are the points from myside, if anything missing or need attention
> please let me know. On the top of this need lots of help from you all for
> testing activity.
>
>     Development is going on https://github.com/pravins/lohit2 repo. Once get
> ready for alpha, will merge it main lohit repo.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Pravin Satpute
>
> a. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825115
> b. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825081
> c. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827516
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