[task #10449] create a new version of Meera font with lowered latin glyphs

[Praveen Arimbrathodiyil]

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                 Summary: create a new version of Meera font with lowered
latin glyphs
                 Project: Swathanthra Malayalam Computing
            Submitted by: praveen_a
            Submitted on: Thu Jun 10 20:19:54 2010
                Category: font-devel
         Should Start On: Thu Jun 10 00:00:00 2010
   Should be Finished on: Wed Nov 10 00:00:00 2010
                Priority: 3 - Low
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

As of now, Latin characters in Meera font goes higher than Malayalam glyphs
and Malayalam glyphs go lower than Latin glyphs. This means effective size of
the glyph increases (ascent and descent values). This means bigger size for
panels and title bars compared to English locale.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=590586

If we lower the baseline for Latin glyphs this could be avoided. I think we
don't do this normally, this could be an experiment to see how it will look. 

See screenshots attached. The second screenshot is with 'A' lowered. 

Please comment on this idea.



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Date: Thu Jun 10 20:19:54 2010  Name: latin-up.png  Size: 34kB   By:
praveen_a

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Date: Thu Jun 10 20:19:54 2010  Name: latin-moved-down.png  Size: 34kB   By:
praveen_a

<http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/download.php?file_id=20728>

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