[smc-discuss] Standardizing glyph names in fonts

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Wow...

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Balasankar C
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2014-01-29 Prime Jyothi <primejyothi at gmail.com>

>  Dear All,
>
> On New year's eve, Rajeesh K Nambiar conducted a nice font training
> session. During the session he mentioned that the glyph names in different
> Malayalam Unicode fonts maintained by SMC are not standardized and this is
> causing a bit of problems in the maintenance of different fonts.
>
> Here is a small utility I have developed that will help in renaming the
> glyphs in the font SFD files : https://github.com/primejyothi/glyphRen
> It takes a reference file that contains the Unicode Code points and the
> corresponding names and rename the glyphs in the SFD file based on that.
> The composite characters will be renamed based on the constituent glyphs.
>
> I used the names from Rachana font as the reference and tested
> AnjaliOldLipi, Dyuthi, Kalyani, Meera, Rachana, RaghuMalayalamSans and
> Suruma and found that renaming worked and it didn't break the fonts.
>
> Hope this utility will make things little bit easy for the font
> maintainers.
>
> I would like to thank Rajeesh for the fonts training and answering my
> questions I had during the development of this program. Needless to say,
> this program is dedicated to him for teaching me the first glyphs of
> Malayalam fonts.
>
> Regards,
> Prime
>
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