[Lohit-devel-list] Lohit-Bengali is About to Release

[Dave Crossland]

Thanks for the update sneha!
On 24 Mar 2014 06:24, "Sneha Kore" <snekore at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all. You might have an idea about the work status for lohit by last
> week [1].  as I have mentioned in earlier blog, there were some things left
> out for the release of Lohit-Bengali. We had worked on it since last two
> weeks & I would like to mention about the improvements that we had gone
> through.
>
> Basic improvements would include :
> - Support for both "beng" & " bng2" script tags
> - Complete cleanup for GSUB lookups
> - Automated Testing
> - Support for the rules mentioned in Unicode Standard Core Specification
> Documentation
> - followed OT rules for Lookup writings specified by Microsoft
> - separate Feature file for flexibility & efficiency
> - thorough testing on W8, Harfbuzz, utrrs etc
>
> Font specific improvements :
> - removing redundant characters (specifically the half forms since
> anchor-positioning applied to them)
> - implementing "copy reference" feature
> - Bengali fonts have lots of Conjuncts included in Lohit family, so the
> glyphs that are exceeding 31 chracter limit, has ommitted scrit tag, from
> its tail. (Details has been listed under README file)
>
> am sure with these improvements Lohit Bengali is more precise at this
> stage. So may be within a next week, we can have alpha release news for
> Lohit-Bengali. Current development cabn be tracked at GitHub[2].
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sneha Kore
>
> 1.
> http://snehakore.blogspot.in/2014/03/wsb-work-status-for-lohit-bengali.html
> 2. https://github.com/pravins/lohit2/tree/master/bengali
>
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