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

[Pravin Satpute]

On गुरुवार 24 ऑक्टोबर 2013 08:08 म.पू., Aravinda VK wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As per my observations only blwf and akhn has difference between knda
> and knda2. Following table shows the difference
>
>           knda            knd2
> blwf     c + h           h +c
> akhn    c + h           h + c
>
> where h is halant and c is consonant.
>
> I implemented this in Gubbi(Still has some issues), GSUB rules can be
> referred here.
> https://github.com/aravindavk/Gubbi/blob/master/tools/gsub.fea

That is very useful. We definitely refer gubbi feature file.

Thanks,
Pravin Satpute
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Sneha Kore <skore at redhat.com
> <mailto:skore at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     hello,
>
>     As already specified in the original mail , Lohit kannada needs
>     some improvements , I would like to mention that I have already
>     gone through the task of GSUB cleanup & started to work for Glyph
>     naming task.
>
>     Regards,
>     Sneha Kore
>
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     >From: "Pravin Satpute" <psatpute at redhat.com
>     <mailto:psatpute at redhat.com>>
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>     >Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 4:56:39 PM
>     >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
>     >
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards
> Aravinda | ಅರವಿಂದ
> http://aravindavk.in

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