{"id":167,"date":"2015-03-11T16:58:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2026-06-05T19:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:38:03","slug":"smart-font-features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/smart-font-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Font Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annapurna SIL is a TrueType font with OpenType font capabilities added using<br \/>\nstate-of-the-art font technologies. This means that complex typographic<br \/>\nissues such as the placement of combining marks or the formation of ligatures<br \/>\nare handled by the font, provided you are running an application that provides<br \/>\nan adequate level of support for these font technologies.<\/p>\n<h3>Accessing features for variant glyphs<\/h3>\n<p>There are some Devanagari character shape differences in different parts of South Asia. These can be accessed by using the OpenType Stylistic Sets and, in some cases, the Character Variant features. The <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/downloads\/r\/annapurna\/AnnapurnaSIL-features.pdf\">Annapurna SIL features<\/a> document shows the OpenType features supporting the variant glyphs.<\/p>\n<h3>Customizing with TypeTuner<\/h3>\n<p>For applications that do not make use of the OpenType Stylistic Sets or Character Variant features, you can now download fonts customized with the variant glyphs you choose. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/downloads\/r\/annapurna\/AnnapurnaSIL-TypeTuner-guide.pdf\">Annapurna SIL TypeTuner guide<\/a>, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/typetunerweb.languagetechnology.org\/ttw\/fonts2go.cgi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TypeTuner Web<\/a>, then to choose the variants and download your font.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annapurna SIL is a TrueType font with OpenType font capabilities added using state-of-the-art font technologies. This means that complex typographic issues such as the placement of combining marks or the formation of ligatures are handled by the font, provided you are running an application that provides an adequate level of support for these font technologies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/annapurna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}