Bug#350916: ITP: ttf-sil-doulos smart Unicode font for Latin and Cyrillic scripts
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Description:
The goal for the Doulos SIL font is to provide a single Unicode-based
font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs
needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether
used for phonetic or orthographic needs. In addition, there is provision
for other characters and symbols useful to linguists. This font makes
use of state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex typographic
issues, such as the need to position arbitrary combinations of base
glyphs and diacritics optimally.
The Doulos SIL font contains near-complete coverage of all the
characters defined in Unicode 4.0 for Latin and Cyrillic. In total, over
2,200 glyphs are included, providing support for over 1,500 graphic or
control characters as well as a large number of ligated character
sequences (e.g., contour tone letters used in phonetic transcription of
tonal languages). Please read the documentation
(DoulosSIL4FontDocumentation.pdf) to see what ranges are supported.
In addition, alternately-designed glyphs are also provided for a number
of characters for use in particular contexts. The glyphs are accessible
in applications that support advanced font technologies, specifically
the Graphite or OpenType technologies. These technologies are also
utilized to provide automatic positioning of diacritics relative to base
characters in arbitrary base+diacritic combinations (including
combinations involving multiple diacritics).
Doulos SIL is released under the SIL Open Font License.
Doulos SIL is a trademark of SIL International.
See the OFL and OFL-FAQ for details of the SIL Open Font License.
See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases.
See the DoulosSIL4FontDocumentation.pdf or the Doulos SIL FAQ
(http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSILfontFAQ) for frequently
asked questions and their answers.
License:
The OFL may be found at http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
It is listed on http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html as a
license suitable for fonts.
debian-legal hasn't come to a consensus about the license yet so I won't
upload until that happens. I will be sponsoring the upload on behalf of
an upstream maintainer.
Regards,
Daniel
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