[HarfBuzz] Dotted Circles in Tai Tham

[Richard Wordingham]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:21:13 +0000
Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:22:30 -0800
> Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Alternatively, are you just looking for a probing test set of real
> > > words?
>  
> > Real or fictional words.  Whatever you think should be considered a
> > syllable for these purposes.
> 
> The list is taking shape at
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.wordingham/lanna/renderer_test.htm .
> Please advise if the format is too complicated to be useful.

I never knowingly received any response to the above statement and
request. I thought I had announced the list's provisional completion,
but I can't found any trace of such an announcement.  I last updated the
content in June 2015, and since then I have not been able to pay much
attention to text processing.  (I was diverted into working on a so far
unrealised explanation of my font.)

Consequently, I didn't notice that Liberty Global shut the domain
down around March this year.  I have now recreated most of my website
(some hardlinks still need to be updated) and the file is now available
and usable again as http://wrdingham.co.uk/lanna/renderer_test.htm .

I say 'provisionally complete' as it would be good (but
time-consuming) to include examples of authentic rendering by hand and
some of the explanatory text could be improved slightly.  I have
noticed that my font's rendering with Firefox (currently Version 49) on
Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) has degraded quite a bit since June 2015, though
the performance of Firefox for the hack encoding of Tai Tham has
improved in one instance.

Richard.