Re: [Freebangfont-devel] Fonts that go into distros

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Saturday 03 May 2003 09:16 am, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:

> On Thursday 01 May 2003 10:15 pm, Deepayan Sarkar said in public:

> > I see what you mean, the ordering of features in the GSUB table is wrong
> > (I faced the same problem when making the template font). I think the
> > simplest way would be to change the single .vtp file these fonts use and
> > recompile them with VOLT. I'll do that tomorrow perhaps (have to boot
> > Windows, arrgh).
>
> No - actually, the trouble is elsewhere.
> Mukti is using both below base substitutions and Vatu to show the
> <con><raphala> glyphs. (see screenshot)
> This is causing all the trouble ( AFAIK - I cannot check at this moment, as
> fonts compiled with pfaedit are not working :-( .

You are right, I didn't notice that. But I think the wrong order of the reph 
and raphala lookups was more critical (both are ra + hasanta -> something, so 
the order would be important). Anyway, I fixed both (in VOLT) for Mukti 
Regular. The resulting file is at 

http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~deepayan/R/Mukti.ttf.gz

could you check if it works (it seems to) ? VOLT did complain about `unknown 
cmap format' though.

I would of course prefer to do this sort of experimentation in pfaedit, but 
the CVS version of pfaedit doesn't produce usable fonts, and the older 
(otherwise functioning) version I have crashes when trying to produce ttf's 
with GPOS features (which Mukti has). I'll send a message to the pfaedit 
list.