It looks like MS disagreed with Adobe on how to standardize the human-readable form of OpenType features. They have their own XML-based language, which is used by their VOLT tool. (You can download VOLT for free, but you have to be a member of their MSN group.) What's more interesting (for us) is that SIL has a command line tool, volt2ttf, that can add OpenType features written in VOLT's XML format to a TTF file. Sadly, I think that FontForge only groks Adobe's (fea) feature format, but not not MS VOLT's XML format. Quote from the SIL web page that Nicolas S. linked: volt2ttf [-a attach.xml] [-t volt.txt] infile.ttf outfile.ttf Compiles volt source into OT tables in the font. Think of this as a 3rd party command-line version of MS VOLT. On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas_spalinger@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Dave Crossland wrote: >> >> 2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> >>> Does anyone know if they >>> have their own production tools? >> >> They do, and they depend somewhat on proprietary software (FontLab) >> but SIL have been slowly publishing them, I think. > > Yes, the SIL designers and script engineers intend to publish more of the > various tools used in the font production workflow (but it takes time and > effort!). For example http://scripts.sil.org/FontUtils > > Victor Gaultney may cover this aspect during his talk at the next AtypI > conference: > http://atypi.org/05_Petersburg/20_main_program/view_presentation_html?presentid=465 > > Cheers, > > -- > Nicolas > > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-fonts-list mailing list > Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list > > _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
