Annapurna SIL - Version History
08 November 2023 (SIL WSTech team) Annapurna SIL version 2.000
Note that this is a major upgrade that may cause document reflow as some glyphs widths have changed and linespacing has been adjusted.
First release that uses a UFO-based design and production workflow
- All sources are in open formats
- Build toolkit and workflow is completely open-source
- See https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/en-US/Introduction.html
Web fonts are provided in both WOFF and WOFF2 formats
Added Devanagari characters:
- U+A8FC DEVANAGARI SIGN SIDDHAM
- U+A8FD DEVANAGARI JAIN OM
- U+A8FE DEVANAGARI LETTER AY
- U+A8FF DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AY
Added recommended characters (Latin, punctuation, other) for non-Latin fonts:
- U+02C7 caron
- U+02D8 breve
- U+02D9 dotaccent
- U+02DA ring
- U+02DB ogonek
- U+02DD hungarumlaut
- U+0306 brevecomb
- U+034F graphemejoinercomb
- U+03C0 pi
- U+2000 enquad
- U+2001 emquad
- U+2002 enspace
- U+2003 emspace
- U+2004 threeperemspace
- U+2005 fourperemspace
- U+2006 sixperemspace
- U+2007 figurespace
- U+2008 punctuationspace
- U+200A hairspace
- U+2010 hyphentwo
- U+2011 nonbreakinghyphen
- U+2012 figuredash
- U+2015 horizontalbar
- U+2027 hyphenationpoint
- U+2028 lineseparator
- U+2029 paragraphseparator
- U+2060 wordjoiner
- U+2126 Omega, Ohm
- U+2202 partialdiff
- U+2206 Delta
- U+220F product
- U+2211 summation
- U+2215 divisionslash
- U+2219 bulletoperator
- U+221A radical
- U+221E infinity
- U+222B integral
- U+2248 approxequal
- U+2260 notequal
- U+2264 lessequal
- U+2265 greaterequal
- U+2423 blank
- U+25CA lozenge
- U+FB01 fi
- U+FB02 fl
- U+FE00 VS1
- U+FE01 VS2
- U+FE02 VS3
- U+FE03 VS4
- U+FE04 VS5
- U+FE05 VS6
- U+FE06 VS7
- U+FE07 VS8
- U+FE08 VS9
- U+FE09 VS10
- U+FE0A VS11
- U+FE0B VS12
- U+FE0C VS13
- U+FE0D VS14
- U+FE0E VS15
- U+FE0F VS16
- U+FEFF zeroWidthNoBreakSpace
- U+FFFC objectReplacementCharacter
- U+FFFD replacementCharacter
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)
- DEVANAGARI CHA variants
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
- ss22 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
22 February 2019 (SIL WSTech team) Annapurna SIL version 1.204 - Reworked Graphite code to remove duplicates from substitution input classes. - Fixed Graphite bug involving alternate renderings of the half forms of ya. Fixed default rendering of dya.
08 December 2017 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.203 - Matched OpenType with Graphite rendering where "ra halant ra halant" renders as "reph over ra-halant" instead of "eyelash ra" with reph over following cons. - Fixed Graphite bugs in reph position chaining rules - Fixed Graphite bug involving ta+ta conjunct half-form
10 February 2017 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.202 - Fixed Graphite where reph was skipping the aakar after the ya - Used TTFautohint for hinting which solved disappearing candrabindu in Bold
01 August 2016 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.201 - Fixed Graphite (reordering) issue when reph and ikar are in a cluster - Fixed Graphite issue related to TypeTuner fonts
15 January 2015 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.200 - Added glyph U+0978 from the Devanagari block - Added half forms of all the consonant-rakar conjuncts - Fixed a near collision between Ha-Nukta and the uukar - Fixed many collisions of ekar/aikar over ra with a preceding upper mark - Hinting was done to enhance the on-screen rendering in Windows and Linux
25 October 2012 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.100 - Added glyphs (with OpenType and Graphite support) from the Devanagari block 0900, 093A..093B, 094E..094F, 0955..0957, 0973..0977, 0979..097A - Added glyphs from the Devanagari Extended block A8E0..A8FB - Added glyphs from the North Indic Number Forms block *A830..A839 - U+dot (and UU+dot) is now attached under the Ra instead of the ligature version - Graphite feature IDs are now all four-character tags per CSS requirements - Minor bug fixes
12 July 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.001 - Added ligature glyphs and smart code support for minority languages * 0930 with 0941 and 093C * 0931 with 0941 * 0931 with 0941 and 093C * 0930 with 0942 and 093C * 0931 with 0942 * 0931 with 0942 and 093C - Fixed design bug in Bold font. The long I with nasal dot had a missing dot - Minor tweaks by adjusting attachment points and hinting parameters - Numerous bug fixes in Graphite
31 Dec 2010 (SIL NRSI team) Annapurna SIL version 1.000 - First version released under the SIL Open Font License