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georgd / EB-Garamond

Digitization of the Garamond shown on the Egenolff-Berner specimen
http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Separate Initials repo #168

Closed georgd closed 1 year ago

georgd commented 1 year ago

@timgrei and @Alexander-Wilms

You might have noticed that I’ve created a new branch called “v2” with the first steps to unify Octavio’s and my versions. Going forward I think it’s a good idea to separate out the initials fonts (and ornaments?) to a new git repository. Thus we can treat them independently from the text fonts. For tools like the makefile this would simplify things, I think. What do you think?

georgd commented 1 year ago

I have no experience with building fonts from their source files, would the split simplify things due to the initials and ornaments being SVGs? In the master branch's Makefile I can't see a special case being made for the intials.

Yes and no. It would simplify the things because special treatment of the initials will be easier in general. But the SVGs have already been imported to the Fontforge sources so this doesn’t play a role.

timgrei commented 1 year ago

@Alexander-Wilms Could the fonts in other repos still be included in the release of this one?

timgrei commented 1 year ago

Then I think it's a good idea.

georgd commented 1 year ago

Done. Ypu find it under https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond-Initials

I’m transferring the issues right now.