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