Re: Had a look at Charis SIL
Dave Crossland wrote: 2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know if they have their own production tools? They do, and they depend somewhat on proprietary software (FontLab) but SIL have been slowly publishing them, I think. 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?presentid=465 Cheers, -- Nicolas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Re: Had a look at Charis SIL
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:07 +0200, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Dave Crossland wrote: 2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know if they have their own production tools? They do, and they depend somewhat on proprietary software (FontLab) but SIL have been slowly publishing them, I think. 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 BTW can the AL1 licensing problem of Font::TTF be fixed before spot loses patience with us font people? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Artistic1Removal 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?presentid=465 Nice pointer, thanks! -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Re: Had a look at Charis SIL
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Crossland wrote: 2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know if they have their own production tools? They do, and they depend somewhat on proprietary software (FontLab) but SIL have been slowly publishing them, I think. 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?presentid=465 Cheers, -- Nicolas ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Re: Had a look at Charis SIL
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 22:52, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : It uses *lots* of multiple (ligature-type) substitutions, sprinkled with some context-based substitutions, and some single substitutions in multiple ccmp tables (some tables are class-based, some glyph based). It's unlike any of the simple stuff that Adobe or other fonts do. I wonder how they maintain all that... Does anyone know if they have their own production tools? 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 ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Re: Had a look at Charis SIL
2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know if they have their own production tools? They do, and they depend somewhat on proprietary software (FontLab) but SIL have been slowly publishing them, I think. -- Regards, Dave ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
