[XeTeX] Review of OpenType font features and language fitness

Kārlis Repsons karlis.repsons at gmail.com
Fri Jan 1 19:52:13 CET 2010


People,

A while back I was asking some questions about fonts here, now I'm back with 
an elaborated review of what I've learnt and found. Since font and my own 
language use in LaTeX was so unclear to me before, I just had to learn, but 
then I decided rather to complete what I do than do "a little" and later 
forget. So I wrote "Review of OpenType font features and language fitness".

After spending some 15 days of *TeX installing, learning and information 
gathering, then summing up my findings about fonts in this work, these
things are achieved:

1. a quite decent free font features overview;
2. some of the most obvious free fonts and semi-free fonts analysed quite 
thoroughly;
3. fitness for Latvian evaluated and conclusions made.

These things still remain as "should be done":
* there is currently too little confidence if I really included the best 
available free and semi-free fonts, people should help here;
* I'd like to have fitness evaluations also for English, Spanish and Arabic 
numbers, but that takes a chunk of time!;
* it would be very nice to have some LaTeX usage specific knowledge and tips at 
the first part.

And of course, I would greatly appreciate if someone with superior TeX/LaTeX 
knowledge enhances this work and suggests some text/code organisation
improvements.

You can access my work from here: http://11.lv/FFLF.pdf
And development version is here: http://11.lv/FFLFdev.pdf
(note: those might not stay there for very long, that is over some months)

A git repository of tex files is available. I'd love to have some collaboration 
by using git. Let me know if you're interested and feedback is welcome!

And happy new year!
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