Will work on the package accordingly, thanks for the inputs. <br><br>Expect a new package by the next weekend.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mahesh T. Pai</b> <<a href="mailto:paivakil@gmail.com">
paivakil@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Package: ttf-malayalam-fonts<br>Version: 1:0.4.7<br>
Severity: wishlist<br><br><br>According to the changelog, version 1:0.4.4 of this package removed<br>MalOtf.ttf sinct it was identical to malayalam.ttf.<br><br>IMHO, this is not appropriate, since MalOtf.ttf contains the OpenType
<br>layout tables while malayalam.ttf does not.<br><br>The better choice would have been to take out malayalam.ttf and retain<br>MalOtf.ttf.<br><br>AFAIK, while most rendering engines support OpenType fonts, the glyph<br>
substitution information for non-OpenType fonts varies from font to<br>font. In particular, malayalam.ttf is not doing _any_ kind of glyph<br>substitution on present versions of pango; I do not know whether this<br>due to any changes made in pango or some problem with the font file.
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