>> I've downloaded the working Lohit Devanagari font from >> >> https://releases.pagure.org/lohit/lohit-devanagari-ttf-2.95.4.tar.gz ; >> >> it has >> >> <modified value="Wed Apr 26 10:34:57 2017"/> >> >> in the `head' table. > > Okay, mine says 14 Feb 2018. Then I went to fedora's build farm to > see how/what exactly have they done to it... Apparently the ttf > fedora shipped is built from sfd and fea with fontforge, then hinted > with ttfautohint. So they like to build the ttf from source sfd/fea > - that's fine - then run ttfautohint, which happens to be buggy . > > I see the current version of ttfautohint is 1.8.2, and 1.8.1 is only > 10 months old . 1.8.1 is what fedora ships and likely the one which > built lohit-devanagari :-(
Uh, oh. It's a regression in ttfautohint – version 1.7 works fine,
version 1.8 and higher fails. Now fixed in git. Attached is a new
version of Lohit Devanagari hinted with the current version of
ttfautohint.
So: Thanks for the report :-)
Werner
Lohit-Devanagari.new.ttf.xz
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