[smc-discuss] Remove Latin glyphs from fonts?

[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:51 AM, santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com
<santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Anil,
>
> On Wednesday 28 August 2013 11:06 AM, Anilkumar KV wrote:
>> It is better to include basic latin glyphs. There are software which do
>> not support automatic glyphs replacement from fall back fonts. The basic
>> latin fonts will not take much processing resources.
>
> Note that I am talking about mlm2 branch, indented to use in modern
> rendering engines. If a rendering engine does not support fallback font,
> it is less likely to support relatively new OT spec like mlm2 version.

mlm2 branch is combined spec anyway, and thinking more about it the
downside of keeping latin glyphs are very low so I'd like to keep
them. It at least makes a lot easier to typeset mixed
Malayalam-English text in TeX without switching font for every enligsh
text amidst malayalam text.

>
> No plan to remove the latin glyphs from fonts which follow old OT spec
> with mlym.
>
> Thanks
> Santhosh
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