DevanagariFontMeeting

Devanagari Fonts & Rendering meeting

Why

Taking stock of available fonts and how well they perform

• statistics, properties for them, no of glyphs , OT rules supported
• classify them - style, weight, features
• Test at all point sizes, with Devanagari text, with mixed text (Devanagari+English+digits)
• Have sample texts for testing
  • Plain text
  • OpenOffice documents
  • Web page, with tables and other elements.

In general identify rendering issues occurring for Devanagari fonts and rendering in FOSS apps.

• Devanagari rendering issues in Pango, Harfbuzz, QT, Firefox, Open Office
• Language issues
• Specific issues with any fonts.

MS OTF specifications have changed for Devanagari

• Understand the differences wrt old specification
• See impact wrt FOSS fonts
• Should we meet the specification or at least keep all FOSS fonts to standard scheme.

When & where

Sometime in September, probably on a Saturday in Pune. Half day (10am-2pm) or full day session (10am-6pm).

Participants

Add name here and list what you would do/present/discuss

Karunakar

• get statistics on fonts
• get list of OT rules implemented by available fonts (lohit,gargi etc).
• study changes in OT specifications and MS OT Devanagari specifications