[Ambassadors] Software for Creating New fonts for Linux

[Rishikesh Sharma]

Thanks again Rahul for your support.

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Rahul Bhalerao <b.rahul.pm at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/9/16 Rishikesh Sharma <rishikesh at fedoraproject.org>:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I want to create a new font and i don't know any open source linux
> software
> > to create fonts. I would like to create a font for linux in my script
> that
> > is called "Meitei Mayek", a traditional manipuri script. Please guide me
> how
> > to create new fonts so that i can contribute fonst in my script "Meitei
> > Mayek" for fedora.
> >
>
> You can use "fontforge" for creating the font. It has good
> documentation and tutorial on font development here
> http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ .
> "Meitei Mayek" character set is not yet encoded in the Unicode (in
> case you don't know about encoding standards, you may refer
> www.unicode.org), but even creating a font without encoding is a good
> starting step to get the activities going up for the script.
>
>
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