Thu 02 Nov 2017 10:06:22 PM UTC, comment #7:
In today's commits, I re-connected a lot of conjunct ligatures whose lookup entries had gone for a walk. There were dozens. Plus there were a couple that were just wrong.
I made some effort to make the normal and bold in each face the same, but differences remain. But what is a good set of conjuncts?
There is an old TDIL grammar for Malayalam, which lists conjuncts used in the Malayalam language. That should be regarded as minimal I think. But for each conjunct, there is the possibility of vowel, vocalic, and rakar forms. Which of those need glyphs?
Another option is to look through existing fonts. The present FreeFont faces are based on glyphs of Rachana and Meera. Both of those have undergone development since... so I should check if they have anything new.
I have scripts for printing out the contents of lookup tables, so they may be more easily compared.
However, I would like also to support Sanskrit. I know that language is written in Malayalam script -- but have little by way of visual examples (really none). There are several glyphs in the main range explicitly for Sanskrit -- but there is no nukta. Not clear how that should work.
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