[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#456143: ITP: ttf-sil-dai-banna - smart fonts for New Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna Dai)

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name    : ttf-sil-dai-banna
  Version         : 2.000
  Upstream Author : Adrian Cheuk, Victor Gaultney - SIL International
* URL             : http://scripts.sil.org/DaiBannaSIL
* License         : Open Font License
  Description     : smart fonts for New Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna Dai)


Description:

The Dai Banna SIL Fonts are the Unicode version of their predecessor,
SIL Dai Banna Fonts. Apart from a few additional characters such as
Chinese punctuation marks, the design is the same and represents a new
rendering of the New Tai Lue (Xishuangbanna Dai) script, which was added
to  Unicode 4.1. These fonts include a complete set of New Tai Lue
consonants, vowels, tones and digits, along with punctuation and other
useful symbols. A basic set of Latin glyphs, including Arabic numerals,
is also provided. Chinese punctuation used in New Tai Lue texts are
included as well. Two font families, differing only in weight, allow for
a wide range of uses.

The New Tai Lue script is used by approximately 300,000 people who speak
the Xishuangbanna Dai language in Yunnan, China. It is a simplification
of the Tai Tham (Old Tai Lue) script as used for this language for
hundreds of years.

These fonts are smart fonts and use a Graphite description. The font
sources (Graphite .gdl and FontLab .vfb) are available in the source
package and on the upstream website.



-- 
Nicolas Spalinger
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http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/
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