[smc-discuss] Remove Latin glyphs from fonts?

[santhosh.thottingal at gmail.com]

On Wednesday 28 August 2013 12:00 PM, Rajeesh K Nambiar wrote:
> 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.

The latin glyphs on our fonts are not suitable for any serious
typesetting. Try these strings with Meera: "AVA", "fi", "Tamil". We dont
have kerning for these glyphs, the glyph spacing is non uniform, we have
only a-z glyphs. Instead of making the typesetting easy, it makes the
latin text below standard quality.

These are the options with decreasing amount of work:

a) Spend time and effort to get these glyphs upto minimum quality for
typesetting-that will require more latin glyphs too.
b) just be Malayalam font.
c) keep it as such with the known issue of low quality latin glyphs.


Thanks
Santhosh