Well I phrased it wrongly and am sorry for that. By referring to the problems pertaining to halant, anuswar, chandrabindu and stuff, I meant to imply that the standards pertaining to these would be used in the tool which we want to create! I havent faced any such issue in the existing fonts like MANGAL.ttf, kruti dev etc. because they are well tried and tested. I was referring to the new fonts which the user wishes to contribute, and which needs testing! Taking the example of http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/views/View_JanaMarathi.html 1. The kha letter does not have a proper curvature, at the lower lefthand corner. 2. The ae ki matra on the letter kha is too straight, ie straight as halant, this would not only confuse a newcomer into the devnagri script. 3. Also there is lack of uniformity in the manner in which matras are applied to the various consonants. for rg the choti e ki matra has no joining with the upper line, while the o ki matra has a joining. 4. The conjugation of half ka and full ka also doesnt seem to be appropriate. the joining line is too straight, it needs curve a bit to make it look like there is real conjugation. 5. The letter ka also does not look nice, as the two sections on either side of the middle line seems to be unrelated
Based on the standards set by expert linguists, we can make a tool similar to fontQA. As far as how should we go about making the tool. I have a doubt, when you said we could also extend fontQA with rule sets does that mean creating fontQA testsuites?
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