Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 22:52, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : You should visit SIL's site (or read the bit of our wiki that talks about foundries). Those guys are serious about i18n and they use all the tricks in the book to manage it. They even have their own smart font tech, graphite. Adobe really does not play in the same space. -- Nicolas Mailhot

Dave Crossland wrote: 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?pre... Cheers, -- Nicolas

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(a)sil.org&gt; wrote: