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From: SIL Font News <sil-font-news@groups.sil.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 at 15:10
Subject: [SILFontNews] Release of Annapurna SIL v2.000 (Devanagari script)
To: SIL Font News <sil-font-news@groups.sil.org>


We are happy to announce the release of Annapurna SIL version 2.000. This release has additional characters, new features and bug fixes.

Note that this is a major upgrade that may cause document reflow as
some glyphs widths have changed and line spacing has been adjusted.


First release that uses a UFO-based design and production workflow
Web fonts are provided in both WOFF and WOFF2 formats

Added Devanagari characters:
Added recommended characters (Latin, punctuation, other) for non-Latin fonts:
Added variant glyphs:
  DEVANAGARI CHA variants
  • Full Cha with tail
  • Half Cha with no stem or halant
  DEVANAGARI HEADSTROKE variants
  •   Discrete (to show the number of missing characters)
  •   Narrow (for use in typography)
  •   Filler (zero advance width for use in typography)
  DEVANAGARI JAIN OM variant (extended headstroke)

Added Stylistic Set features:
  • ss16 uses ligature forms for ra + ukar (or uukar) with nukta
  • ss17 for full Cha with tail, half Cha with no stem or halant
Added Character Variant features:
  • cv21 for headstroke variants discrete, narrow and filler
  • cv22 for Jain Om variants with extended headstroke
  • Graphite only: added features cv01-cv17 to correspond to OpenType ss01-ss17
Width of typographic spaces have been made more consistent to reflect common publishing industry usage. Note that this may affect line and page lengths. Affected spaces:
  • U+2003 EN SPACE
  • U+2004 THREE-PER-EM SPACE
  • U+2005 FOUR-PER-EM SPACE
  • U+2006 SIX-PER-EM SPACE
  • U+2009 THIN SPACE
  • U+200A HAIR SPACE
  • U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
Fixed OpenType rendering of double Nga stack with open-Ya to match Graphite
Fixed OpenType rendering of nukta forms of stemless characters with open-Ya to match Graphite
Added Graphite rules to reorder ikar before full vowel and possible cons or half-cons
Fixed Ra+ukar collision with preceding ukar
Fixed ikar-anusvara collision on conjuncts
Fixed misoriented contours and duplicated knots
Added UFO key and value data to set head table flag bits 0 and 1
Revised content and format of the documentation

The home page is http://software.sil.org/annapurna/.

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