[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#801779: ITP: fonts-sil-doulos-compact -- smart Unicode font for Latin and Cyrillic scripts (tight spacing version)

[Daniel Glassey]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Daniel Glassey <wdg at debian.org>
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Package name: fonts-sil-doulos-compact
Version: 5.000
Upstream Author: SIL International http://scripts.sil.org/Support
URL: http://scripts.sil.org/DoulosSIL
License: Open Font License 1.1 with Reserved Font Names "Doulos" and "SIL"
Description: smart Unicode font for Latin and Cyrillic scripts (tight
spacing version)

 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.

 The Doulos SIL font contains near-complete coverage of all the characters
defined in Unicode 7.0 for Latin and Cyrillic. In total, over 3,600 glyphs
are included, providing support for over 2,300 characters as well as a
large number of ligated character sequences (e.g., contour tone letters
used in phonetic transcription of tonal languages).

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 a TrueType font with "smart font" capabilities added using
the Graphite, OpenType(r), and AAT font technologies. This means that
complex typographic issues such as formation of ligatures or automatic
positioning of diacritics relative to base characters in arbitrary
base+diacritic combinations (including combinations involving multiple
diacritics) are handled by the font.  In addition, alternately-designed
glyphs are also provided for a number of characters for use in particular
contexts. These capabilities are only available if you are running an
application that provides an adequate level of support for one of these
smart font technologies.

 This is the compact version with tighter line spacing.
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