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Re: [Freefont-bugs] What's next?
From: |
Steve White |
Subject: |
Re: [Freefont-bugs] What's next? |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:17:06 +0200 |
Christian,
On Feb 12, 2008 10:28 PM, Christian Perrier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Steve White (address@hidden):
>
> > > - continue the run for Unicode ranges completeness by filling in gaps
> > > (that implies finding designed glyphs)
> > >
> > One guy already wrote me about some glyphs in some Indian ranges.
> > Some of them look usable.
>
> If needed, I have many contacts in the India FLOSS community who could
> help deciding whether proposed glyphs are suitable or not.
>
Well, I am certainly unqualified to make these determinations.
It was Paul Wisewho wrote me, and it was about the Debian package
http://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-mph-2b-damase
It is a collection including apparently hand-drawn glyphs for several
Indian character ranges. They aren't beautiful (to my eyes), but
perhaps could be useful.
I have read that the range of glyphs in the Kharoṣṭhī range there is
not usable as-is, because of a lack of font features.
The base requirement for a range of glyphs to be included, will be
that they are useful for rendering text for the main purpose (here,
text in the given language).
So: If a speaker of these languages could tell me, if these glyphs
are adequate for rendering text, that would be helpful. Then I would
want to know how they look.
Cheers!