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Noto Syriac
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hinted: Does not have Syriac fonts #16

Closed LionNatsu closed 7 years ago

LionNatsu commented 8 years ago

Syriac fonts:

NotoSansSyriacEastern-Regular.ttf
NotoSansSyriacEstrangela-Regular.ttf
NotoSansSyriacWestern-Regular.ttf

Are missing from the hinted directory, while they are found in unhinted. More fonts might be missing from the hinted directory, I am yet to make sure of that.

jungshik commented 8 years ago

As you found out, not all fonts are hinted.

marekjez86 commented 7 years ago

Hinting is a separate process which required additional effort/payments. Not all fonts were hinted and not all fonts will be hinted in the future. Need for Syriac hinted noted.

davelab6 commented 7 years ago

Sadly Syriac is not in https://github.com/lemzwerg/noto-hinted

cc @lemzwerg

lemzwerg commented 7 years ago

Well, ttfautohint doesn't support Syriac yet. Something for the future...

brawer commented 7 years ago

@lemzwerg, could you document how to support a new script? Then, if somebody wants hinting for Syriac (or Ol Chiki, or whatever else), they can add it themselves and send you a pull request.

lemzwerg commented 7 years ago

Adding a new script is demonstrated for example with the following commit in ttfautohint (this adds Ethiopian):

http://repo.or.cz/ttfautohint.git/commitdiff/d14c7c0758539921b58f2854777175fde1267fb1

The corresponding entry in the 'noto-hinted' is

https://github.com/lemzwerg/noto-hinted/commit/cb76bff511932b903bf7bae23ad4c54d168878d4

You then have to do the following steps.

  1. Say make html to run ttfautohint on the fonts (which must be present in the unhinted directory of the noto-fonts git repository) and to generate the HTML webpages.
  2. Commit the changes to the repository.
  3. Say make to run the screenshooter program which takes screen snapshots from BrowserStack. This can easily fail so it might be necessary to repeat make until all screen shots are taken.

Note that currently the 'noto-hinted' repository is out of sync with the fonts in 'noto-fonts', due to lack of time and progress with a new ttfautohint release :-/

brawer commented 7 years ago

Awesome; can you add that to the ttfautohint docs/site/repo? Thank you 💛

lemzwerg commented 7 years ago

I've now added the stuff related to ttfautohint to the documentation and to the description of the noto-hinted repository.