Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Re: FW: Bengali

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 02:28, Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> 
> I'm replying to all for now, but maybe we should transfer this over to 
> freebangfont-devel.
> 
> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 02:14 pm, Ahmed, Taneem wrote:
> 
> > This reminds me, we should seriously start working on that *complete* OT
> > Bangla font. if both KDE and GNOME supports OT fonts then some better fonts
> > are very important.
> 
> I agree. (I am not entirely happy with the choice of editors we have, but for 
> now we have to do with Pfaedit.)
> 
> > Deepayan and Sayamindu, obviously we all expect you two to take the leading
> > role in this... maybe we should come up with an initial list of glyphs
> > based on the M$ doc about Bangla OTF, what do you guys think?
> 
> MS doc doesn't (as far as I know) list glyphs (nor should it). My 
> recommendations are: 
> 
> (1) to use the list of conjuncts we have (was it from Kaushik?) as a starting 
> point, and keep a few blank glyphs for the future.

I think Karunakar (cc-ed) sent me a list of possible conjuncts long time
back - Karunakar - could you please resend it (I have had a hdd crash
since then, and I lost them during that :-( .)

> Mukti already has all 
> these, so we can start from there. It's already a reasonably good-looking 
> font (and I don't think us amateurs can do any better by ourselves), and the 
> only current drawback is that it seems to have some bugs on Linux. But that 
> may well be bugs in Pango.

Mukti is definitely the best choice for now.
I will be going into them.
Pango seems to have some bugs with Below Base Substitution - I'll be
checking if the workarounds work ;-)

> 
> (2) Use VOLT for the initial GSUB tables, then extract that as a xml table 
> using ttx, and supply all these to interested developers. That way, both 
> Windows and Linux users should be happy.

I could not get ttx to work in my system - will let you know the exact
problems.

> 
> Deepayan
> 
> 
> 

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