Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
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

Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
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

Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-25 Thread Vasile Gaburici
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

Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
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

Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
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 ___