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This page is at an early stage; information can be downright wrong, and may change often. Right now this page is mostly a collection of links to external information sources on this topic, mostly for European languages. Please help improve this page.

This page aims to provide guidance for font designers and package maintainers regarding OpenType features that support local typographic traditions. Adding these features to an OpenType font is more like programming than traditional font design, so they they may well be implemented by people with programming skills, even if they've never edited a glyph.

European languages

Latin scripts

• Adam Twardoch's talk at BachoTeX 2008.

General information about OpenType features

• Christopher Slye's talk at ATypI 2006 gives insight on how the process is handled at Adobe. Slides.
• Wikipedia's entry on OpenType features.
• The OpenType layout tag registry.

Fonts in Fedora
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.