Re: [DejaVu-fonts] Interest in Tamil Support?

[Ben L. <ben...@gm...>]

On Friday 23 November 2007, Wesley Transue wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I was wondering whether there was any interest in an extension of
> DejaVu Sans which would add support for the Tamil script. This would,
> obviously, be a very big task, which would require OpenType tables,
> new ligatures, diacritics, etc., and I would need help from you all
> :-). I have attached to this email a patch for a few Tamil glyphs I
> worked on yesterday, just as a preview. A new branch would probably
> have to be created because I don't have a lot of spare time on my
> hands to dedicate to this project (I had time yesterday because it
> was Thanksgiving, and I was able to work on the glyphs after stuffing
> my face with turkey).

I'd suggest you just open a new branch in SVN to create the script in if 
you want to start developing.  Don't immediately put the new glyphs in 
trunk, new scripts aren't developed in there.  But I want to stress the 
importance here to find native speakers who can help you with 
reviewing, since it's very easy to make mistakes in scripts like these.


> This is just an idea. If you think you'd like to wait until I have
> the time to finish a few more glyphs, or if you think this would be
> too hard of a project, just write back and tell me. I don't know
> *anything* about OpenType tables, so that would have to be up to
> someone with more advanced font-editing knowledge, but I am willing
> and (hopefully) able to create the glyph outlines.

Well, just ask us about it if you need to know something, Opentype 
tables aren't difficult, but it may look like a big mess if you're not 
familiar with it.  Also take a look at how other fonts do it.

Greetings
Ben