Lorna | 12 November 2015

This release includes the following changes for this version:

  • Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support of previously Graphite-only features
  • Added Character Variants to the font for OpenType support of previously Graphite-only features
  • Added Serbian feature when Serbian language is turned on
  • Added hook D variant feature (for U+018A/U+0257)
  • Removed “Show deprecated PUA” feature
  • Removed “Romanian-style diacritics” feature (because glyphs are now encoded)
  • Removed “Diacritic selection” feature
  • Added U+039E, U+03BC, U+03C6 and U+03C9 in the Greek and Coptic block
  • Added U+0528..U+052F in the Cyrillic Supplement block
  • Added U+2041 in the General Punctuation block
  • Added U+2095..U+209C in the Superscripts and Subscripts block
  • Added U+20B6..U+20BD in the Currency Symbols block
  • Added U+210C, U+2113, U+2117, U+212D, U+2135, U+214F in the Letterlike Symbols block
  • Added U+2150..U+2152 and U+2189 in the Number Forms block
  • Added U+2226, U+2234..U+2235, U+2262, U+2282..U+2287 in the Mathematical Operators block
  • Added U+2640, U+2642, U+266D, U+266F in the Miscellaneous Symbols block
  • Added U+27E8..U+27E9 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block
  • Added U+2C7E..U+2C7F in the Latin Extended-C block
  • Added U+2C88 in the Coptic block
  • Added U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E3A..U+2E3B in the Supplemental Punctuation block
  • Added U+A736..U+A73F, U+A742..U+A74D, U+A750..U+A787, U+A790..U+A7AD, U+A7B0..U+A7B1, U+A7F7..U+A7FA in the Latin Extended-D block. These were also added to relevant features.
  • Added U+A92E in the Kayah Li block (to support the Kayah Li language when using the Roman script)
  • Added U+AB64..U+AB65 in the Latin Extended-E block
  • Added U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D50F, U+1D514, U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block
  • Added PUA characters U+F26C (curl J) and U+F26D (left-hook b)
  • Characters in our PUA that were added to Unicode have had their codepoints updated: F1AD>A7F9, F266>A78E, F26B>A78D, F32C>0526, F32D>0527, F17B>1DFD, F209>2C70
  • These PUA characters were deprecated (now white on black glyphs): U+F17B, U+F1AD, U+F209, U+F247, U+F248, U+F266, U+F26B, U+F32C, U+F32D
  • Deleted U+0149 as it is officially deprecated in Unicode
  • Added support for shorter macrons under narrow letters (i,l,r,t). (This only works for Graphite or using precomposed characters in OpenType.)
  • Made it possible for saltillo characters (U+A78B and U+A78C) to “carry” diacritics
  • Improved design of U+A722..U+A725 and U+A78D
  • Refactored all cedilla positioning
  • Removal of unneeded duplicate glyphs (because of improvements in smart font code)
  • Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Vietnamese alternates and Small Caps
  • Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Ogonek alternates and Small Caps
  • “Hide tone contour staves” feature now works with single tonebar
  • Allowed combining marks to render properly with U+02D0
  • Changed postscript names for U+0218 and U+0219
  • Changed postscript names for U+2203, U+232A and U+2329
  • Optimized Graphite code for faster processing of plain ASCII text
  • Version number bumped up to match other SIL Roman fonts
  • Subscript and Superscript parentheses, minus, plus and equals were raised. Metrics were not changed.
  • Modified U+0452 to have a descender
  • Changed design of U+A728 to use lowercase ezh form.
  • Added space to right of U+201E to make it equal to that of U+201A
  • Made U+005C Reverse Solidus an actual reverse of U+002F Solidus
  • Changed U+1D44 and U+0250 to be double-story rather than single-story

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