[Lohit-devel-list] [Bug 798871] [RFP] Please add Vedic Extensions to Lohit fonts

[pravin.d.s at gmail.com]

On 11 July 2012 15:28, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Moving to lohit-devel.
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 11:24 AM,  <bugzilla at redhat.com> wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=798871
> >
> > --- Comment #9 from Pravin Satpute <psatpute at redhat.com> ---
> > Wow, thats nice.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > I am thinking to release Lohit Vedic rather than making Lohit Devanagari
> to
> > much bulky.
>
> I would prefer you call it Lohit Devanagari Vedic. Vedic fonts for
> other scripts may also be produced in future. Vedic != Devanagari
> only.
>
> > Reasoning behind it
> > 1) Vedic requires extra ascent and descent space. It will increase line
> > spacing.
> > 2) Regular Devanagari users does not required Vedic characters.
>
> Right on both.
>
> > 3) Having specific font for Vedic will give more flexibility to do
> changes.
>
> I don't understand -- what changes?
>
> BTW I think it would be difficult to handle complex Vedic markup in
> OT. If you can do it that's fine, but I myself am not able to think in
> the OpenType way.
>

Basically backward compatibility issues.  Open type has given lots of
flexibility for Font development. Lets try and see how it goes.



>  <http://sanskrit1.ccv.brown.edu/tomcat/sl/accents.html>
> As I remarked in my comment #7 on the bug, I will be doing Graphite
> tables later on which you can also add to the Lohit font itself. (I
> suppose you have grcompiler package on Fedora? See
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/grcompiler/) Note that Graphite tables
> are just additional tables and do not conflict with the OpenType
> tables.
>

Looks like grcompiler not available yet in Fedora, no props i can install
it manually.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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