Thanks for the info about updated Culmus font. It was a pleasent surprise. I'll study it and perhaps it will make my autonikkud project irrelevant. I just subscribed to the culmus list so that I won't miss any more anouncements.
Regarding EzraSIL, I believe it is less feature rich than SBL. And besides, I find it too "loose" with too much whitespace, which probably due to its design goals of being a scholar font, which put more emphasis on all diacritics being clearly visible. Dov On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 21:40, Ira Abramov <[email protected]> wrote: > Also check out this font, the license is pretty much GPL compatible, I > think: > http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=EzraSIL_Home > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 19:42, Dov Grobgeld <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks. I have in the last few days returned to hacking on my automatic >> Nikkud opentype anchor inserter program that I started working on in 2006. >> Since then FontForge has got python bindings, so things are much easier >> these days. >> >> It turns out that for biblical hebrew with trop the placement rules are >> far from simple. Fortunately the logics of the placement has already been >> solved in the SBL font [ >> http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/BiblicalFonts_SBLHebrew.aspx]. Even >> though the SBL font isn't totally free, I got the answer a few years back, >> that it is ok to copy the chained positions and substitution logics from >> it. That is my goal with the automatic nikkud insertion, to be able to >> "bless" (like perl ;-) a Hebrew font with full Diacritics logics. >> >> Shavua tov! >> Dov >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 19:09, Lior Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Dov Grobgeld >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> The changes to Frank-Ruehl were part of a small project that I did a >>>> number of years ago, that used heuristics (same as in Pango) to build >>>> OpenType GPOS tables for any Hebrew font. I used CLM Frank-Reuhl as my test >>>> font for the scripts. I remember that there were a few problems left with >>>> my GPOS generating script, and since I did not want to do any manual >>>> polishing (since that would disable the ability to run the script again), I >>>> ended up not releasing anything at all. But since what I have is a lot >>>> better than the current Culmus font, I guess that I should release it as >>>> is. Who is in charge of Culmus these days? >>>> >>> >>> Maxim is still the relevant person for any contributions for Culmus. >>> He's CCed to this mail. >>> >>> Maxim, >>> http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2012-January/003502.html is >>> the context of this mail. >>> >>> Kaplan >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discussions mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions >> > >
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