Re: [Indlinux-group] finally a book on fonts!

[Dave C. <da...@la...>]

On 22/11/2007, Rahul Bhalerao <rah...@ya...> wrote:
>
> > > It may not be within the scope of this book, but there needs some
>  more documentation on typography that can cover in depths of OpenType
>  development (preferably with some information on other methods, tools and
>  platforms too). It should also cover script specific developments beyond
>  Latin such as Arabic, Indic, CJK etc. with some complementary details
>  of underlying rendering as well. In short there is an elementary book
>  available now, there still needs an advanced course.
>
> > Now that's a good idea any day. So, when will you start working on such
> > a book/documentation ? :)
>
> I actually had such a plan for some time now. Let's see if some
> publisher is listening :)

I hope you'll join the www.openfontlibrary.org project, where I and
the rest of the OFLB community have started the very first stages of
such documentation on the wiki.

I hope to expand on this in much more detail when I come to engineer
my new Malayalam font in 2008.

-- 
Regards,
Dave