[gentium] gentium -> victor?

Wed Apr 8 00:04:10 CEST 2015

(Guess I will cc the list, http://lists.tug.org/gentium, just for the
sake of archiving, even though I think I'm the only human on the list. :)

    1.) We probably need to check whether any slots in *.enc files can be
    filled after the update (which has probably introduced new glyphs). 

Yes, it did.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium_news#28Oct14 
gives the overview:

 2014.10.28 Gentium Plus font released.
 Version 5.000 of the Gentium Plus font has been released - This is a
 major update that includes official Unicode codepoints for all PUA
 characters which were added to Unicode 6.1 and 7.0. Many new Latin and
 Cyrillic character were added. Stylistic Sets and Characters Variants
 were added.

For convenience, below is the detailed entry from
gentium/doc/fonts/gentium-tug/GentiumPlus/FONTLOG.txt
Yikes.  Not sure when or if I'll be up for dealing with all that.
Pavel, any chance?

    2.) We should probably rebuild the tfm files following
    http://svn.gnu.org.ua/viewvc/gentium?view=rev&revision=11.

You're right.  Sigh.

    3.) Slightly lower priority. I see that Gentium provides Vietnamese
    Style (see GentiumPlus-features.pdf) which our t5 encoding doesn't
    use, but probably should.

If one of you wants to look.  Or maybe I can recruit someone else who
knows Vietnamese.  In any case, I wouldn't hold up the release for it.
As opposed to the other stuff you mention.

Thanks,
Karl

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27 Oct 2014 (SIL NRSI team) Gentium Plus version 5.000
- Added Stylistic Sets to the font for OpenType support 
	of previously Graphite-only features
- Added Character Variants to the font for OpenType support 
	of previously Graphite-only features
- Added Serbian feature when Serbian language is turned on
- Added hook D variant feature (for U+018A/U+0257)
- Removed "Show deprecated PUA" feature
- Removed "Romanian-style diacritics" feature 
  (because glyphs are now encoded)
- Removed "Diacritic selection" feature
- Added U+039E, U+03BC, U+03C6 and U+03C9 in the Greek and Coptic block
- Added U+0528..U+052F in the Cyrillic Supplement block
- Added U+2041 in the General Punctuation block
- Added U+2095..U+209C in the Superscripts and Subscripts block
- Added U+20B6..U+20BD in the Currency Symbols block
- Added U+210C, U+2113, U+2117, U+212D, U+2135, U+214F in the 
  Letterlike Symbols block
- Added U+2150..U+2152 and U+2189 in the Number Forms block
- Added U+2226, U+2234..U+2235, U+2262, U+2282..U+2287 in the 
  Mathematical Operators block
- Added U+2640, U+2642, U+266D, U+266F in the Miscellaneous Symbols block
- Added U+27E8..U+27E9 in the Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A block
- Added U+2C7E..U+2C7F in the Latin Extended-C block
- Added U+2C88 in the Coptic block
- Added U+2E00..U+2E0D, U+2E3A..U+2E3B in the Supplemental 
  Punctuation block
- Added U+A736..U+A73F, U+A742..U+A74D, U+A750..U+A787, U+A790..U+A7AD, 
  U+A7B0..U+A7B1, U+A7F7..U+A7FA in the Latin Extended-D block. 
  These were also added to relevant features.
- Added U+A92E in the Kayah Li block (to support the Kayah Li language 
  when using the Roman script)
- Added U+AB64..U+AB65 in the Latin Extended-E block
- Added U+1D40C, U+1D504..U+1D505, U+1D50A, U+1D50E..U+1D50F, U+1D514, 
  U+1D516..U+1D517, U+1D519 in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block
- Added PUA characters U+F26C (curl J) and U+F26D (left-hook b)
- Characters in our PUA that were added to Unicode have had their 
  codepoints updated:
  F1AD>A7F9, F266>A78E, F26B>A78D, F32C>0526, F32D>0527, F17B>1DFD, F209>2C70
- These PUA characters were deprecated (now white on black glyphs): 
  U+F17B, U+F1AD, U+F209, U+F247, U+F248, U+F266, U+F26B, U+F32C, U+F32D
- Deleted U+0149 as it is officially deprecated in Unicode
- Added support for shorter macrons under narrow letters (i,l,r,t).
  (This only works for Graphite or using precomposed characters in OpenType.)
- Made it possible for saltillo characters (U+A78B and U+A78C) to "carry" 
  diacritics
- Improved design of U+A722..U+A725 and U+A78D
- Refactored all cedilla positioning
- Removal of unneeded duplicate glyphs (because of improvements in smart 
  font code)
- Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Vietnamese 
  alternates and Small Caps
- Bug fix in Graphite code to allow for simultaneous selection of Ogonek 
  alternates and Small Caps
- Subscript and Superscript parentheses, minus, plus and equals were raised.
	Metrics were not changed.
- Adjusted tails on U+2C6B, U+2C6C
- Arrowhead design of U+21A8 modified to match the other arrows
- Placement of Ogonek revisited
- Improved hinting
- Version number bumped up to match other SIL Roman fonts
- Slight modification to positioning of U+0361 and U+035C
- Narrow No-Break Space (U+202F) adjusted to be narrower 
  than the No-Break Space (U+00A0)
- Changed the strongly curved hooks on Cyrillic U+04C3..U+04C4, U+04C7..U+04C8, 
  U+04FC..U+04FD, U+0512..U+0513 to be more consistent with other hooks and also 
  reshaped U+0402, U+0452, U+0494, U+0495, U+04A6, U+04A7, U+0520..U+0523 to match
- Modified Cyrillic italic versions of U+04AF, U+04B1
- Changed postscript names for U+0218 and U+0219
- Changed postscript names for U+2203, U+232A and U+2329
- "Hide tone contour staves" feature now works with single tonebar
- Fixed outline for U+1DBF
- Allowed combining marks to render properly with U+02D0
- Added U+037F in the Greek and Coptic block
- Adjusted U+1FBD so that it is a spacing mark in Graphite
- Improved design of U+2C72 and U+2C73 (hook w) for collision avoidance
- Adjusted width of U+005F
- Adjusted design of U+0264