Announcing alpha release 2.91.0 of lohit-gurmukhi from lohit2 project

Pravin Satpute <psatpute@xxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:45:52 +0530



    Hi All,

    
       This time its Lohit-Gurmukhi (earlier know as Punjabi). We took
    decision couple of months back to rename Lohit Punjabi to Lohit
    Gurmukhi. [1] During this name change we also done the improvements
    planned in lohit2 project to make font more efficient and effective
    across platform. We have done number of improvements from technical
    as well from designing (specifically matra)  perspective.

    
        Highlights of 2.91.0 release are as follows:

    
          Technical improvements
      
        Supports guru and gur2 open type script tags.
        Follows AGL specification syntax.
        Open type rules are available in .fea file for easy
          reusability
        Open type gsub lookups reduction from 10 to 8.
        Corrected glyph class of all glyphs.
        Renamed anchors to GRAnchor.
      
      Designing improvements
      
        Improved shape of aivowelguru, oovowelguru,
          auvowelguru,aivowelguru_tippiguru, oovowelguru_tippiguru,
          auvowelguru_tippiguru,aivowelguru_addakguru,
          oovowelguru_addakguru,auvowelguru_addakguru,
          oovowelguru_bindiguru, auvowelguru_bindiguru.
        "Copy Reference" feature implemented for better reusability
          of glyphs.
        Improved grid fitting(GASP) table.
      
      Testing
      
        Tested with Harfbuzz NG and Uniscribe (W8)
        Test file available with release tarball
        Auto test integrated with Makefile ($make test).

        
        Updated lohit project page [2] for download details. Source
    tarball link [3], TTF tarball link [4] and webfonts format for Lohit
    is at [5].

    
        I would specifically like to thanks A S Alam, Amandeep Saini for
    there help in identifying improvements in Lohit Gurmukhi and Sneha
    to make this release happen.

    
        Need your help in spreading this news in relevant communities
    for testing and identifying critical issues. 

    
    Thanks,

    Pravin Satpute

    
    1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047373

    2. https://fedorahosted.org/lohit

    3.
    https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-gurmukhi-2.91.0.tar.gz

    4.
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-gurmukhi-ttf-2.91.0.tar.gz

    5.
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-gurmukhi-web-2.91.0.tar.gz

  
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