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Fonts for the Miao script
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[sfm] 16F22: add variant with vertical stroke more to the right like 16F20 #71

Open cheuk879 opened 5 years ago

cheuk879 commented 5 years ago

For [sfm], the vertical stroke of 16F22 should be more to the right like 16F20.

mhosken commented 5 years ago

samples please

jvgaultney commented 5 years ago

This makes sense. Only two langs use the warted cons: [hmd] and [sfm]. [hmd] uses both u16F21 and u16F22 (and not u16F20), which makes the warted/non-warted similar: image

However for [sfm] they use u16F20 (not u16F21) so there is currently a mismatch: image

We will need a new glyph (u16F22.sfm) and a new OT lookup to make the substitution. This will need to wait until after v1.0.

cheuk879 commented 5 years ago

Would have been nice to make it for v1.0, but we'll relate to the users.

jvgaultney commented 5 years ago

Well this has been this way in the font for many months and was reported a month after the agreed-upon deadline for all 1.0 changes.

cheuk879 commented 5 years ago

Yes, I know, so I've already notified them accordingly. As I mentioned some time ago, we're really in a chicken-or-egg situation: users need a font to see what's right & what's wrong as a means to tell us what they want, but we need to know what they want before we can give them a font. This is esp. tricky when we only have a handwritten alphabet chart to start with. Most of the time we have to guess what they may want & ask hypothetical questions. And it happened a week ago they responded to this guess, saying, "yes, that's what we want!" Anyhow, we'll aim for v1.1 for this.

jvgaultney commented 5 years ago

Thanks - This is why I've been pressing to get 1.0 out, even with known bugs.