support for Yiddish diacritics

[ibleaman]

This excellent font is missing support for Standard Yiddish, which would require the addition of just a few characters:

1. Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Double Vav U+05F0 װ
2. Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Vav Yod U+05F1 ױ
3. Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Double Yod U+05F2 ײ (Yiddish also uses this in combination with a patah vowel, which is already supported.)
4. Hebrew Point Rafe U+05BF ֿ (Yiddish also uses this in combination with bet and pe, for vet and fe: פֿ, בֿ)

Would you have time to update the file to include these characters?

Here is how the font renders, both in word processing and in the Google Fonts catalog, when one tries to type in Yiddish. You can see it looks very bad because the diacritic causes the whole character to be rendered in the default font.

[nickshinn]

Hi Isaac,

Thanks for your interest in Bellefair!

Please contact http://www.lironlavi.com/contact/ http://www.lironlavi.com/contact/

Liron designed Bellefair's Hebrew characters.

Kind Regards,

Nick

Nick Shinn President

Shinntype 42 John Street Orangeville, ON L9W 2P3 Canada

On Jul 22, 2018, at 7:41 PM, Isaac Bleaman notifications@github.com wrote:

This excellent font is missing support for Standard Yiddish, which would require the addition of just a few characters:

Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Double Vav U+05F0 װ Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Vav Yod U+05F1 ױ Hebrew Ligature Yiddish Double Yod U+05F2 ײ (Yiddish also uses this in combination with a patah vowel, which is already supported.) Hebrew Point Rafe U+05BF ֿ (Yiddish also uses this in combination with bet and pe, for vet and fe: פֿ, בֿ) Would you have time to update the file to include these characters?

Here is how the font renders, both in word processing and in the Google Fonts catalog, when one tries to type in Yiddish. You can see it looks very bad because the diacritic causes the whole character to be rendered in the default font.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11401564/43051386-2eb80a96-8de7-11e8-8bfe-11ccaa962467.png — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/shinntype/bellefair/issues/10, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AOMFrsgY7wHfkt-waMrJJIpAKR6wpIO7ks5uJQ20gaJpZM4VaMoo.

[ibleaman]

Nick, I have built the few characters that are required to render Standard Yiddish (most of them autogenerated as combinations of existing characters). I have the files in .glyphs, .ttf, and .otf, but not .vfb. In the event that I can contribute to the repo, is there someone else who could update those files in the sources directory?

[ibleaman]

Any updates on this?

[nickshinn]

Please contact Liron Lavi Turkenich, she is responsible for the Hebrew characters of Bellefair.

liron.lavi@gmail.com

Kind Regards,

Nick

Nick Shinn President

Shinntype 42 John Street Orangeville, ON L9W 2P3 Canada

On Aug 29, 2018, at 9:37 PM, Isaac L. Bleaman notifications@github.com wrote:

Any updates on this?

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[binyamin]

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