Bug#357485: ITP: grcompiler - compiler of smart fonts
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Description:
SILGraphite is a system that can be used to create and use "smart
fonts" capable of displaying writing systems with various complex
behaviors, such as: contextual shaping, ligatures, reordering, split
glyphs, bidirectionality, stacking diacritics and complex positioning.
This library was designed and developed by the NRSI (Non-Roman Script
Initiative) within SIL International (www.sil.org) to act as a
complement to other smart font rendering technologies with limited
practical local extensability. Its purpose is to help meet the needs of
a very large number of "minority language" communities for local
extensibility of complex script behaviors.
The behavior of the SILGraphite rendering engine for a given writing
system is specified through extra tables added to a TrueType font. These
tables are generated by compiling a GDL (Graphite Description Language)
source file into a font using grcompiler.
This package contains the graphite compiler.
License: Dual license LGPL and CPL
http://fieldworks.sil.org/License/SIL_open_source_license_frame.htm
The initial package will be a prerelease of version 2 from svn
http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/graphite/grcompiler/trunk
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