Hi All,
Glad to announce alpha release of lohit-malayalam 2.91.0 from
lohit2 project[1]. As we planned earlier [2] indeed this is lightest
Malayalam modern script font around with just 214 glyphs and 11 open
type table.
We have done following improvements in Alpha version over the
2.5.4 release.
- Reduced number of glyphs nearly by 25%
- Open type Looksup are reduced by 45%
- Supporting mlm2 and mlym specifications.
- Testing on Harfbuzz NG and Uniscribe (W8)
- Followed AGL syntax with User friendly glyph names.
- Improved GASP table (grid-fitting)
- TTF build from feature file.
Updated lohit project page [3] for download details. Source
tarball link [4], TTF tarball link [5] and webfonts format for Lohit
is at [6].
I would like to say thanks to Ani for her help in testing stuff,
Shriramana for reporting important bugs from standard perspective
and Sneha for making this happen :)
As this is alpha release need your help for testing it and
making it more perfect. I am still doubtful that we might have
missed some important exceptions of Malayalam script so looking
forward to fix them in coming releases.
By next week this release will be available in Fedora 20 and
Rawhide.
Cheers,
Pravin Satpute
1.
http://pravin-s.blogspot.in/2013/08/project-creating-standard-and-reusable.html
2.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/lohit-devel-list/2013-December/msg00005.html
3. https://fedorahosted.org/lohit
4.
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-malayalam-2.91.0.tar.gz
5.
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-malayalam-ttf-2.91.0.tar.gz
6.
https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/o/lohit/lohit-malayalam-web-2.91.0.tar.gz
7. https://github.com/pravins/lohit/issues/new