Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
It seems some of the issues reported are defects or mismatches in the rendering
software. The font uses OpenType tables to inform rendering. OpenType is
different from Graphite, so using Graphite software does not help. Also,
support for Javanese in OpenType is quite recent; old systems such as Windows 7
don't support it. A good application to use for testing is the current version
of Firefox – bugs you see there are very likely bugs in the font.
Detailed comments:
1. The font's GPOS table adjusts the positions of U+A9B8 (suku) and U+A9BF
(cakra), but not of other characters that can collide with pasangan. The
adjustment of suku and cakra can be seen in Firefox.
2. The font's GSUB table forms a nice ligature of U+A9BD (pepet) and U+A981
(cecak). All other combinations are, as you say, smashed together. The ligature
of pepet and cecak can be seen in Firefox.
3. The font's GPOS table has rules to properly position individual marks above
or below the base consonant. The positioning can be seen in Firefox. In
rendering software that doesn't observe the GPOS rules, some above-base marks
may float to the right because of bug 162.
4. The font's GPOS table does nothing to position pangkon, so it floats to the
right because of bug 162.
5. I don't know what motivated the Monotype design team to simplify the glyphs
this much, but I'm curious: does the lack of the initial upstroke really make
the character incomprehensible, or is it just an unusual design? Or does for
Javanese unusual imply incomprehensible because people don't see much text in
Javanese script in the first place?
6. That's bug 161.
Original comment by googled...@lindenbergsoftware.com
on 18 Jan 2015 at 7:37
Original comment by stua...@google.com
on 28 Feb 2015 at 12:31
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
jimeildo...@gmail.com
on 11 Jan 2015 at 7:25Attachments: