Release v4.0.14.b1 (public beta 1)

Lorna | 21 October 2005

This is not the official release of this font although it has been tested internally and is highly functional. This is a public beta release. Please do not redistribute this public beta font.

This public beta (b1) includes the following changes:

Features new to Doulos SIL (Graphite only):
- Modifier colon alternate (affects: U+F1E9 MODIFIER LETTER COLON)
- J stroke hook alternate (affects: U+0284 LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J WITH STROKE AND HOOK)
- Hide tone contour staves
- Diacritic selection (allows independent selection of diacritics)
- Bridging diacritics (specials for Naso and Konai languages)
- Slant italic specials (special italic versions of U+0061 LATIN SMALL LETTER A, U+0250 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED A, U+00E6 LATIN SMALL LETTER AE, U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F, U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I, U+0131 LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I, U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I, U+006C LATIN SMALL LETTER L, U+0076 LATIN SMALL LETTER V) (known issue: does not work for fi, ffi, fl, ffl, ff ligatures)
- Orthographic glottal alternate (gives an x-height version of U+0294 LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP for Dogrib language, et al)
Added:
- U+27E6 MATHEMATICAL LEFT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET
- U+27E7 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT WHITE SQUARE BRACKET
- U+0472 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER FITA
- U+0473 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER FITA
- U+219B RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH STROKE
- U+219A LEFTWARDS ARROW WITH STROKE
Latin Unicode 4.1 characters added and if they were already in SIL’s corporate PUA they are double-encoded.
New PUA characters:
- U+F17A COMBINING DOUBLE DIAERESIS
- U+F25C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P WITH STROKE
- U+F25F LATIN SMALL LETTER V WITH RIGHT HOOK
- U+F262 LATIN SMALL LETTER K WITH DESCENDER
- U+F263 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K WITH DESCENDER
- U+F264 LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH DESCENDER
- U+F265 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH DESCENDER
- U+F32A CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED ZE
- U+F32B CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER REVERSED ZE
Design changes:
- Glyph changes:
  - U+2033 DOUBLE PRIME
  - U+2034 TRIPLE PRIME
  - U+2036 REVERSED DOUBLE PRIME
  - U+2037 REVERSED TRIPLE PRIME
  - U+2057 QUADRUPLE PRIME
  - U+007C VERTICAL LINE
  - U+2016 DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE
  - U+01C0 LATIN LETTER DENTAL CLICK
  - U+01C1 LATIN LETTER LATERAL CLICK
  - U+01C2 LATIN LETTER ALVEOLAR CLICK
  - U+0347 COMBINING EQUALS SIGN BELOW
  - U+034A COMBINING NOT TILDE ABOVE
  - U+034E COMBINING UPWARDS ARROW BELOW
  - U+0494 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER GHE WITH MIDDLE HOOK
  - U+0495 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER GHE WITH MIDDLE HOOK
  - U+04A6 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER PE WITH MIDDLE HOOK
  - U+04A7 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER PE WITH MIDDLE HOOK
- Smaller diaeresis when used in combination with modifier (superscript) characters (currently for Graphite only, not OT)
- Tone bars no longer limited to 3 sequences (for Graphite only, not OT)
  - Known issue: Sequences of identical tones don’t appear correctly
- Sidebearing changed:
  - U+01B4 Latin Small Letter Y With Hook
- Bottom attachment points changed:
  - U+027F LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED R WITH FISHHOOK
  - U+0285 LATIN SMALL LETTER SQUAT REVERSED ESH
- Positioning changed:
  - U+035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE
  - U+035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON
  - U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOW
  - U+0362 COMBINING DOUBLE RIGHTWARDS ARROW BELOW

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