[Lohit-devel-list] [Announce] Next improved release of Lohit Devanagari 2.95.0 with Latin and ttfautohinted.

[pravin.d.s at 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.tar.gz
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
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