ThaiFonts-Scalable

Changes from 0.4.9

• New fontforge file format (requires fontforge >= 20080110).
• Latin ligatures in all fonts, by the needs triggered in LaTeX.
• Cleared shapes for ZWJ, ZWNJ, LRM, RLM in all fonts.
• Latin accents in Purisa font [Pietro Battiston].
• Experimental pure monospace font, TlwgTypo, with OpenType-based combining marks handling.
• Various bug fixes and minor adjustments.

Download

• source: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thaifonts-scalable/thaifonts...
• binary: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thai-ttf/thai-ttf-0.4.10.tar...

Changes from 0.4.8

• Reintroduced font: Kinnari [National Font Project] (plus Angsana synthesizing).
• New font: Umpush [Widhaya Trisarnwadhana] (plus Cordia synthesizing).
• Improved OpenType tables for broader range of applications.
• Mark repositioning for certain Thai consonants with deep right stems like CHO CHING, NO NEN, NO NU, SO RUSI.
• Scaled-down high variant of MAITAIKHU.
• More consistent line spacing for Garuda, Norasi.
• More uses of references, for compact generated files and maintainability.
• Various manual hint adjustments.
• Smoother stem hints.

Download

• source: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thaifonts-scalable/thaifonts...
• binary: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thai-ttf/thai-ttf-0.4.9.tar....

Changes from 0.4.7

• New fonts: Sawasdee [Pol Udomwittayanukul], Waree [Widhaya Trisarnwadhana].
• TrueType instructions (hints) (requires fontforge >= 20071110)
• More spline refinement and glyph height consistency cleanup
• Synthetic Browallia font using Garuda via fontconfig

Download

• source: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thaifonts-scalable/thaifonts...
• binary: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thai-ttf/thai-ttf-0.4.8.tar....

Changes from 0.4.6

• Fix an error in GSUB rules found in 0.4.6.
• Thoroughly refine splines for Garuda, Loma and TlwgTypist, for better (Postscript) hinting.
• Add fontconfig spec, taken from Debian package.

Download

• source: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thaifonts-scalable/thaifonts...
• binary: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thai-ttf/thai-ttf-0.4.7.tar....

Changes from 0.4.5

• Update glyphs for Loma bold from the original author to match non-rounded shapes in their normal-weight counterparts.
• Clear subscript, superscript, strike controls in fonts, to fix weird rendering with Gecko.
• Add exception clause to font license, so that documents that embed the fonts are not enforced by GPL.
• Improved GSUB tables in fonts, to ensure they work properly with OO.o.

Download

• source: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thaifonts-scalable/thaifonts...
• binary: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thai-ttf/thai-ttf-0.4.6.tar....

Changes from 0.4.4

• New font: TlwgTypist.
• Clean up XUID for fonts that cause problems with dvips.
• Add Foundry info and Thai sample text to all fonts.

Download

• source: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thaifonts-scalable/thaifonts...
• binary: ftp://linux.thai.net/pub/ThaiLinux/software/thai-ttf/thai-ttf-0.4.5.tar....

Part of works at Ubuntu Localisation Sprint.

This is a brown-paper-bag release. Thep wishes he has more time to examine things in next releases.

Changes from 0.4.2

• Dropped fonts: DBThaiText, Kinnari [Thep: Unclear licenses. This includes the dropping of the newly created Kinnari Italic shape.]
• Renamed fonts: Pseudo Mono → Tlwg Typewriter [Poonlap]
• Improved fonts: Loma [Thep, in sync with Sirichai the original author, plus some more fine tunes]
• Improved OpenType tables: Nikahit is now rendered correctly in all cases. [Thep]
• Font cleanups:
  • Clean up some unused glyphs [Thep]