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

[Sneha Kore]

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>
>To: lohit-devel-list at redhat.com
>Cc: pavanaja at vishvakannada.com, hallimanearavind at gmail.com, omshivaprakash at gmail.com, skore at redhat.com, svenkate at redhat.com, samjnaa at gmail.com, i18n at lists.fedoraproject.org, indlinux-group at lists.sourceforge.net
>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
>