Needing for the ibus-pinyin/libpinyin testers
by Peng Wu
Hi,
libpinyin is a n-gram based pinyin back end for ibus-pinyin, which
provides intelligent sentence-based pinyin input experience. Please help
testing to make it better.
The ibus-pinyin with libpinyin back end is here:
http://pwu.fedorapeople.org/libpinyin-repo/
For installation guide, please see README in the above URL.
If you encounters a bug or needs a missing feature, feel free to
report a bug.
Thanks,
Peng Wu
12 years, 4 months
Re: Lohit Tamil with Embolden transformation
by pravin.d.s@gmail.com
2011/11/28 Santhosh Thottingal <sthottingal(a)wikimedia.org>
> Hi,
>
> I spent some amount of time today on learning about hinting and its
> behavior, played with fontforge, compared Lohit Tamil with other Tamil
> and Malayalam fonts which is having not so bad rendering in windows.
>
> Autohinting is not giving expected results for Indic fonts, since they
> are yet to write algorithms for that-
> http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/
> I checked with Hiran about the possibility of Manual Hinting. He told
> me that , that requires advanced skills in typography and he never
> seen it anybody done for Indic fonts except a typographers work for
> Sinhala.
>
Yes, manual hinting is pain. It takes lots of time.
We need to do it for each character and for each size i.e. 8pt, 10pt, 12pt.
4-5 bugs on liberation fonts hinting is pending from long time, so i need
to dig it some time.
> If we are using upstream Lohit, I understand that we cannot get good
> results. Lohit family fonts are not well tested for Windows
> too(Pravin, Correct me if I am wrong).
>
Yes, windows was never high priority for lohit, but some people use it for
Windows as well though i have not heard anything regarding Lohit Tamil yet.
>
> By studying the behavior of other fonts, I have one solution with me,
> I did an Embolden Transformation on font by 25
> units(http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/Styles.html) and I see that the
> hinting problem is disappeared and font is more good for reading. The
> font is more dark now.
>
Yeah, we need Bold font for each script in Lohit upstream. see bug for
Devanagari https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648350
But auto bold will not work perfectly, we need some manual intervention by
font designer to make it consistent with Regular Lohit fonts.
>
> Srikanth, Pravin, please confirm this by the screenshots attached. let
> me know if there is any improvement.
>
Definitely image looks better that earlier broken thing. Let me know once
you applied it.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
12 years, 4 months
subpackaging for typing booster tables
by Pravin Satpute
Hi All,
marathi-typing-booster total size is around 12MB something, it
includes inscript and phonetic layout tables. Users normally use only
one layout either inscript/phonetic. I am more familiar with phonetic so
always use marathi-phonetic same way some l10n users only use
marathi-inscript.
Considering this i think its better to package marathi-phonetic and
marathi-inscript in different rpm. It will reduce present rpm size say
around 4-6mb and also save some hard-disk space. Will do same thing with
other booster language tables.
Lets target this for Fedora 17. Let me know if any thought on this.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
12 years, 4 months
Re: Lohit Assamese and Kashmiri fonts
by pravin.d.s@gmail.com
2011/11/13 Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal(a)gmail.com>
> Pravin,
> We got confused while renaming the package names for Indic fonts when
> we see two different fonts for Assamese and Bengali - lohit-as
> lohit-bn
> Both uses Bengali, so how the font differs? I know two three character
> diffrences, but normally included in bengali font itself. Same is the
> case for devanagari- lohit-hi and lohit-ks
>
We have stopped releasing Lohit-hindi, Lohit-Kashmiri long time back, since
all of these fonts were identical.
>
> Could you please explain?
>
Yes, Bengali and Assamese language uses same script bengali, only
difference is Ra character.
Assamese uses U+09F0 and Bengali uses U+09B0
We can easily handle that in font but AFAIK presently only pango support
lang tag. Lang tag is supported in harfbuzz-ng as well so once we will
have standardize OTLE we can definitely stop shipping Lohit-Assamese and
keep only Lohit Bengali.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
12 years, 4 months