From: Denis J. <mo...@gm...> - 2008-03-04 21:11:31
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Parts of DejaVu are under a license, Bitstream Vera License, not compatible with GPL, license of Khmer OS fonts. Merging the fonts or those parts cannot be redistributed with those licenses. As far as hinting goes, hinting seems to have been automated for Latin characters, or at least partially, in Khmer OS fonts. Hinting was done manually in Bitstream Vera fonts and still is in DejaVu. The line height of DejaVu fonts is the same as Bitstream Vera, and is therefore optimized for Western Latin script. Other scripts might not fit in that. In theory the solution would be to use the OpenType BASE table. But support for writing and reading that table is rather absent. That table allows to set different linheights per script or language. Cheers, Denis Moyogo Jacquerye |