[Freebangfont-devel] encouraging discovery about ttx

[Deepayan Sarkar]

I was fooling around with ttx and discovered something interesting. My earlier 
attempts to use ttx were like this:

With likhan.ttf produced by VOLT,

$ ttx likhan.ttf    <- produces likhan.ttx
$ ttx likhan.ttx    <- supposed to produce likhan.ttf, but fails

This time around, I did the first step, and saved the GSUB table in likhan.ttx 
in a separate file. I then generated a fresh likhan.ttf w/o any opentype 
tables from pfaedit, ran ttx on it to get likhan.ttx, and added the 
previously saved GSUB table (not any of the other tables). The resulting file 
is successfully compiled by ttx, and seems to be a valid opentype font. It 
works in yudit and gedit, as well as (surprise!) openoffice (I haven't tried 
Windows yet).

The font is available at

www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/Bengali/WebPage/Font/likhan.ttf

I would appreciate it if someone else could confirm that it works with 
openoffice.

The other tables that I didn't add were GPOS (which shouldn't have been there 
in the first place) and GDEF (which was causing the problems). Anyone know 
what GDEF is for ?