Re: [Freefont-bugs] What's next?

[Steve White]

Christian,

On Feb 12, 2008 10:28 PM, Christian Perrier <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Steve White (address@hidden):
>
> > > - continue the run for Unicode ranges completeness by filling in gaps
> > > (that implies finding designed glyphs)
> > >
> > One guy already wrote me about some glyphs in some Indian ranges.
> > Some of them look usable.
>
> If needed, I have many contacts in the India FLOSS community who could
> help deciding whether proposed glyphs are suitable or not.
>
Well, I am certainly unqualified to make these determinations.

It was Paul Wisewho wrote me, and it was about the Debian package

http://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-mph-2b-damase

It is a collection including apparently hand-drawn glyphs for several
Indian character ranges.  They aren't beautiful (to my eyes), but
perhaps could be useful.

I have read that the range of glyphs in the Kharoṣṭhī range there is
not usable as-is, because of a lack of font features.

The base requirement for a range of glyphs to be included, will be
that they are useful for rendering text for the main purpose (here,
text in the given language).

So:  If a speaker of these languages could tell me, if these glyphs
are adequate for rendering text, that would be helpful.  Then I would
want to know how they look.

Cheers!