Activity log for bug #641930

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2010-09-18 10:17:52 Khaled Hosny bug added bug
2010-09-19 22:48:07 Dave Crossland bug added subscriber Dave Crossland
2010-09-19 22:52:57 Khaled Hosny description This was originally posted as question, but it got expired with no answer. I'm not sure why to direct such a question, but I'm, genuinely, interested in knowing such limitations (and possibilities to fix it), and since questions did not work, I'm asking here. The wikipage (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu%20Font%20Family) states: FontForge (as of mid-2010) does not handle some extended OpenType features, hopefully having a libre/open font that uses these features will speed development in being able to support the them! I'd like to know what exactly are the missing features so we can work on adding them, a blank statement like this is on no much use (and to my knowledge, FontForge has the most complete OpenType coverage, implementing parts of the spec that no other font This was originally posted as question, but it got expired with no answer. I'm not sure why to direct such a question, but I'm, genuinely, interested in knowing such limitations (and possibilities to fix it), and since questions did not work, I'm asking here. The wikipage (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu%20Font%20Family) states: FontForge (as of mid-2010) does not handle some extended OpenType features, hopefully having a libre/open font that uses these features will speed development in being able to support the them! I'd like to know what exactly are the missing features so we can work on adding them, a blank statement like this is on no much use (and to my knowledge, FontForge has the most complete OpenType coverage, implementing parts of the spec that no other font editor or layout engine has implemented).
2010-09-28 10:06:31 Nicolas Spalinger bug added subscriber Nicolas Spalinger
2010-09-29 05:53:53 Paul Sladen tags ttf-tools
2010-09-30 11:35:18 Paul Sladen summary What OpenType features FontForge is missing? What OpenType features is FontForge missing?
2010-09-30 11:35:27 Paul Sladen ubuntu-font-family: status New Triaged
2010-09-30 11:54:37 Alan Bell bug added subscriber Alan Bell
2011-01-04 19:30:02 Peter Clifton bug added subscriber Peter Clifton
2011-03-10 13:51:01 Khaled Hosny removed subscriber Khaled Hosny
2014-11-13 16:25:24 Matthew Paul Thomas summary What OpenType features is FontForge missing? [nc] What OpenType features is FontForge missing?
2014-11-13 16:25:37 Matthew Paul Thomas ubuntu-font-family: importance Undecided Medium