Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Reworking Mukti

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Friday 09 May 2003 07:12 am, Anirban Mitra wrote:
> Hi All,
> When I first saw Mukti Fonts in Linux platform I found it to be
> quiet a mess. The reph-raphalaa problem could not be solved by
> tweaking the vtp in VOLT. 

Actually it can. The whole problem is due to an undocumented feature in VOLT 
(I think) which Uniscribe works around (or else there's a bug in freetype). 
In the Mukti ttf files, the order of the lookups rphf and blwf are reversed. 
Freetype tries to do them in the given order and messes things up. MS' engine 
probably ignores the given order and does it the way they say it should be 
done. I don't know what they opentype specs say.

The actual order in the font produced by VOLT seems to depend on the order of 
the susbstituitions in the middle column.

There's also another problem, which is that one particular substitution is 
included in two separate lookups. I don't think this is a big problem, but I 
haven't actually tested, and it should be fixed.

Anyway, I did fix both these a couple of days back, and it seems to work fine. 
I was planning to do some more tests before saying anything, but it would be 
great if you could take this up.

I have the following files in 



I plan to remake the font using Deepayans
> template. It is going to take quiet a time, as I have less time for
> those things now. And, moreover as I get access to net in a
> cybercafe  once in a week or two now I will not be able to take
> part in the  discussions. but I am keeping myself updated by
> reading the mail archives.
> Hope Mukti will be more useful after the modification so that we
> can call it version 1.0.
>
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