Improvements plans for Lohit-Oriya

Hello,

As announced earlier regarding improvements plan for Lohit Tamil, we have done changes and 2.91.0 release is available for testing now. We now have  moved ahead  with the improvements plans for Lohit Oriya.

Initially we have planned the following things:

1.) Creating a test file for Lohit-Oriya which covers all the combinations.
2.) Renaming the glyphs in a user readable format so that its easily understood.
3.) Rewriting the Open type rules for Lohit-Oriya.
4.) Testing the rules for all combinations.
5.) Testing with Harfbuzz and Uniscribe.
6.) Auto testing module.



For further reference:

https://github.com/pravins/lohit2/
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/oriya/intro.htm

Testing Screenshots for Lohit-Tamil

Hello!!,

As we had already proceeded with the work for Lohit-Tamil as planned earlier, We are now going to announce the release for Lohit-Tamil. We have done testing of  Lohit-Tamil on Linux and Windows8. Here are the screenshots for the same.


Testfile screenshot of Lohit-Tamil on Linux

Testfile screenshot of Lohit-Tamil on Windows8

For further reference :
https://github.com/pravins/lohit2/
http://utrrs-testing.rhcloud.com/language/ta

Improvement plans for Lohit-Telugu

Hello,

After the successful improvements in Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurumukhi and Malayalam with Lohit2 Project. We now have  moved ahead  with the improvements plans for Lohit Tamil.

Initially we have planned the following things:

1.) Creating a test file for Lohit-Tamil which covers all the combinations.
2.) Renaming the glyphs in a user readable format so that its easily understood.
3.) Rewriting the Open type rules for Lohit-Tamil.
4.) Testing the rules for all combinations.


For further reference:

https://github.com/pravins/lohit2/
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/tamil/intro.htm

Started Working for Lohit2

Hello !!! 

I am presently working as an intern at Red Hat and will be contributing to the development plans of Lohit2 project.

I`m referring Font forge tutorials for better understanding the rules for creating fonts and the associated conditional features. I`m also Reading about various rules and features for developing Open type fonts for Devanagari scripts . This has helped me Understand the various feature tags, their definition and implementation.

I have tried creating  various combinations for Devanagari scripts and applying features to them. This gave me an overall view of font-forge and Lohit2 project.

Now I will be working on the improvement plan for Lohit-Tamil.


For further reference:
http://fontforge.org/editexample.html
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/features_ae.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OpenTypeDev/devanagari/intro.htm