TITLE

thai2gdl - Create GDL for a standard Thai font

SYNOPSIS

  thai2gdl [-a angle] [-c] [-i basegdl] [-x xmlfile] fontfile gdlfile outfont
Creates GDL for a Thai font.

OPTIONS

  -a angle        Italic angle in degrees
  -c              Don't create U+25CC if not present
  -i basegdl      which .gdl file to include [thai.gdl]
  -x file         XML point database file for fontfile
  -z              Don't create U+200B (zwsp) if not present

DESCRIPTION

This program does a number of things:

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It creates a dotted circle glyph if one is not present and adds it to the font. And also a blank ZWSP (U+200B) glyph if not present.

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It reencodes the font to conform to Unicode encoding appropriate to OpenType fonts and also to Win95 Thai editions

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It creates attachment points for each glyph

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It adds kerning rules to ensure glyphs don't clash.

Since positioning is dependent on italic angle. If thai2gdl is used on an italic font the slope of the font should be given to the program if it is not already specified in the POST table in the font.

SEE ALSO

thai2ot, thai2volt