{"id":3651,"date":"2025-06-03T13:55:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:55:44","slug":"release-7-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/release-7-000\/","title":{"rendered":"Doulos SIL Release 7.000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doulos SIL Release 7.000 &#8211; Major release<\/p>\n<p>This release is focused on feature refinements, new character support, and diacritic positioning improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/download\">Download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note that this may be the final major version of Doulos SIL. Please consider switching to one of our other font families.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Fewer alternate font versions<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>There is no longer a <em>Compact<\/em> variant. A <em>Compact<\/em> version of the v6.2 font remains available from https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lcgfonts\/download\/<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>TypeTuner Web no longer offers line spacing alternatives for the v7 font (Normal, Tight, Loose). If you need Tight or Loose variants the v6.2 font s available and supports line spacing alternatives.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>There are no \u2018pre-tuned\u2019 regional or <em>Literacy<\/em> special-purpose modified variants. The v6.2 variants, including a <em>Literacy<\/em> version, remains available from https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lcgfonts\/download\/. You can still manually create v7 variants with TypeTuner Web that include literacy forms and other alternatives.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Feature enhancements<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The default form for capital N with left hook has been changed to the lowercase style to match the capital Eng. The related feature (<code>cv44<\/code>) has been changed to substitute the uppercase style form.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>U+019D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LEFT HOOK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Additions to Modifier Apostrophe feature (<code>cv70<\/code>)\n<ul>\n<li>U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA<\/li>\n<li>U+02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA<\/li>\n<li>U+0312 COMBINING TURNED COMMA ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0314 COMBINING REVERSED COMMA ABOVE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Addition to Rams Horn feature (<code>cv25<\/code>)\n<ul>\n<li>U+10791 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Small caps added for these parentheses and brackets\n<ul>\n<li>U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS<\/li>\n<li>U+0029 RIGHT PARENTHESIS<\/li>\n<li>U+005B LEFT SQUARE BRACKET<\/li>\n<li>U+005D RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET<\/li>\n<li>U+007B LEFT CURLY BRACKET<\/li>\n<li>U+007D RIGHT CURLY BRACKET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>New character support<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Unicode 16 additions\n<ul>\n<li>U+1C89 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER TJE<\/li>\n<li>U+1C8A CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER TJE<\/li>\n<li>U+A7CB LATIN CAPITAL LETTER RAMS HORN\n<ul>\n<li>This was previously in the SIL PUA (U+F26E)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>U+A7CC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE<\/li>\n<li>U+A7CD LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH DIAGONAL STROKE<\/li>\n<li>U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA<\/li>\n<li>U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA<\/li>\n<li>U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Orthographic at signs\n<ul>\n<li>U+24B6 CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A<\/li>\n<li>U+24D0 CIRCLED LATIN SMALL LETTER A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Additional Cyrillic modifiers\n<ul>\n<li>U+A69C MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC HARD SIGN<\/li>\n<li>U+A69D MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC SOFT SIGN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Case mapping for Coptic eie\n<ul>\n<li>U+2C89 COPTIC SMALL LETTER EIE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Upwards ancora (and revised downwards form)\n<ul>\n<li>U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA<\/li>\n<li>U+2E15 UPWARDS ANCORA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Prosodic symbols\n<ul>\n<li>U+23D1 METRICAL BREVE<\/li>\n<li>U+23D2 METRICAL LONG OVER SHORT<\/li>\n<li>U+23D3 METRICAL SHORT OVER LONG<\/li>\n<li>U+23D4 METRICAL LONG OVER TWO SHORTS<\/li>\n<li>U+23D5 METRICAL TWO SHORTS OVER LONG<\/li>\n<li>U+23D6 METRICAL TWO SHORTS JOINED<\/li>\n<li>U+2E3D VERTICAL SIX DOTS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Doubled brackets and parentheses\n<ul>\n<li>U+27EA MATHEMATICAL LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET<\/li>\n<li>U+27EB MATHEMATICAL RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET<\/li>\n<li>U+2E28 LEFT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS<\/li>\n<li>U+2E29 RIGHT DOUBLE PARENTHESIS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Logical symbols\n<ul>\n<li>U+21AE LEFT RIGHT ARROW WITH STROKE<\/li>\n<li>U+22BB XOR<\/li>\n<li>U+22BC NAND<\/li>\n<li>U+22BD NOR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Improvements and fixes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Support added for complex positioning of bridging double diacritics and nearby marks. Correct rendering requires a very specific encoding sequence &#8211; see https:\/\/software.sil.org\/fonts\/bridging-diacritics\/\n<ul>\n<li>U+035C COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE<\/li>\n<li>U+035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON<\/li>\n<li>U+035F COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+0360 COMBINING DOUBLE TILDE<\/li>\n<li>U+0361 COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0362 COMBINING DOUBLE RIGHTWARDS ARROW BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+1DCD COMBINING DOUBLE CIRCUMFLEX ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+1DFC COMBINING DOUBLE INVERTED BREVE BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+F17A COMBINING DOUBLE DIAERESIS (in SIL PUA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fixed position of\n<ul>\n<li>U+1D09 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED I<\/li>\n<li>U+1D4E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED I<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fixed dotless form of\n<ul>\n<li>U+1DF1A LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE AND RETROFLEX HOOK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Revised design of\n<ul>\n<li>U+A720 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND HIGH TONE<\/li>\n<li>U+A721 MODIFIER LETTER STRESS AND LOW TONE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Improved design of some combining diacritics\n<ul>\n<li>U+032B COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+033C COMBINING SEAGULL BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+1AC7 COMBINING INVERTED DOUBLE ARCH ABOVE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Revised anchors on many letters to improve diacritic positioning, including these and related letters\n<ul>\n<li>U+004A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J<\/li>\n<li>U+0051 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q<\/li>\n<li>U+0059 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y<\/li>\n<li>U+0066 LATIN SMALL LETTER F<\/li>\n<li>U+0069 LATIN SMALL LETTER I<\/li>\n<li>U+006A LATIN SMALL LETTER J<\/li>\n<li>U+0079 LATIN SMALL LETTER Y<\/li>\n<li>U+0434 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reviewed anchors on spacing acutes and graves\n<ul>\n<li>U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT<\/li>\n<li>U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT<\/li>\n<li>U+02CA MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT<\/li>\n<li>U+02CB MODIFIER LETTER GRAVE ACCENT<\/li>\n<li>U+02CE MODIFIER LETTER LOW GRAVE ACCENT<\/li>\n<li>U+02CF MODIFIER LETTER LOW ACUTE ACCENT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doulos SIL Release 7.000 &#8211; Major release This release is focused on feature refinements, new character support, and diacritic positioning improvements. Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the Download page. Note that this may be the final major version of Doulos SIL. Please consider switching to one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/doulos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}