![]() ![]() Now the outlines look quite good in my Windows Vista. The outlines appeared very choppy, very much like a badly-scaled bitmap.Īfter a great deal of detective work, comparing FreeFont to other fonts, and switching my (single home) computer between operating systems, I figured it out. The appearance of the font in Windows has evidently always been very poor. It was meant to serve simply a graphical clipping region, but many applications also take it to indicate line spacing (and some as line spacing but not clipping region). Unfortunately, this Win ascent/descent is interpreted variously. ![]() OS/2 Win ascent and descent: 900 EM, 300 EM. There are cases of stacked accents which may be difficult to fit into a comfortable height. ![]() The extended Latin ranges are a rather worse problem. There are also standard typographic practices that can make them work well with Latin. These scripts have some characters that are conventionally very high or low: Arabic, Thai, Tamil. I hope in the future the situation can be further improved. I have put them where I think they belong, and that helped a lot. Now, I found that some scripts (Japanese, Arabic, and Tamil) were greatly offset from the baseline, for no reason I could see. They should therefore at least be commensurate. A criterion for them being together must therefore be that they look good together. The purpose of putting scripts from different languages into a single font can only be, to make it easy to make text in mixed languages. The line spacing is now slightly increased (by about 15%) to allow for most accents and high and low letters. It had some bad side-effects: the most obvious was that in Windows, the ascenders and descenders of Latin letters were chopped off. #Fontforge baseline PatchI applied this patch to the current FreeFont in CVS. In the Debian distribution of FreeFont, a patch was applied to remedy this. The result was that in many applications, the line spacing (of FreeSerif especially) was extremely large. The underlying reason is, some of those new glyphs were very high or low. * much work was done on lookups in Sans, but lookups in other facesĮver since GNU Freefont started acquiring language script ranges, line height has been a problem. Many ranges (Ethiopic, Japanese, Indic) need a lot of work Perhaps replace Hiragana/Katakana with more modern set, ![]() Maybe a find a better way to provide font snapshots Kerning (and related issues) needs to be changed to "kerning by classes" In Sans, many alterations to lookup tables, which are very buggy Indic (Devangari, Gurmurkhi, Bengali, Gujarati) Moved capital letters with tonos so tonos doesn't cover preceding letterĪdded lookup tables to do contextual character replacement,Īdded the required ligature look-up for lam-alif.įixed U+30FB, KATAKANA MIDDLE DOT to be full-width Made 'tonos' to be the same as combining accent acute Superscript digits and fractions regularizedĮxtended Additionals: fixed incorrect stacking of many accents Ligatures ff ffi ffl fi fl put in standard lookup table Removed all back layers: fixed "ghost glyph" in printingįont Info: Manufacturer (like OS/2 Vendor ID) is now GNU extremaĮspecially in Sans: Indic ranges were a complete mess I have installed and used it in Windows Vista, and it has been (it is still slightly increased: see discussion below) Besides being much more stable, they nowĭo quite thorough checking for font problems. The recent versions of FontForge are much superior to those of aĬouple of years ago. (so now we can use recent versions of FontForge) Updated file format to Spline Font Database (SFD) 2 I expect to make another release soon, dealing in more detail with bugs.īrought into line with Debian ttf-freefont Certainly not all the pending bug reports have been dealt with. Thanks to the several people who offered advice!Ī lot of changes were made, and probably a few things are screwed up. Several outstanding bug reports are fixed, and some characters are added, especially Math symbols. This release addresses mostly technical issues with the fonts. I'm pleased to announce another release of GNU FreeFont. Item posted by Steve White on Sun 03:50:25 PM UTC. ![]()
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