missing Mono and Alta variants?

[sthibaul]

Hello,

In Debian we used to ship opendyslexic, including the Mono and Alta variants, but in the latest tarballs I cannot file .otf files for them in compiled/. Would it be possible to build .otf files for them? I tried to use glyphes2ufo + ufo2ft to do the conversion, but this is failing...

Samuel

[GhostDog98]

I've just opened a pull request for this, see that if you would still like a copy of it.

[definesfineout]

@GhostDog98 can you reference/link your PR please? I wasn't able to locate it and have this same issue.

@antijingoist If it hasn't been addressed, I'd like to go ahead and take this issue if you don't mind? I'm working on adding OpenDyslexic support to another application and need to be able to serve it through an easily accessible CDN (ex. jsdelivr).

I'd also want to expand this beyond otf to include woff at minimum.

[GhostDog98]

@GhostDog98 can you reference/link your PR please? I wasn't able to locate it and have this same issue.

@antijingoist If it hasn't been addressed, I'd like to go ahead and take this issue if you don't mind? I'm working on adding OpenDyslexic support to another application and need to be able to serve it through an easily accessible CDN (ex. jsdelivr).

I'd also want to expand this beyond otf to include woff at minimum.

Turns out there's an official release for the mono and alta versions, just a bit old (I think?)
https://github.com/antijingoist/open-dyslexic/releases/tag/20160623-Stable

Sorry for the delay in reply.

[definesfineout]

Thanks for taking a look! Looks like the Alta and Mono TTF/OTF are present but not WOFF. I'd ideally like to serve WOFF if possible.

[antijingoist]

A few things:
Apologies for getting on this so, so, so very late. A funny thing happened in early 2020... 😞 👀 (to be clear, not hahaha funny, but more like "oh, shit"). Everything was sidelined while I focused on family is the tl;dr. I know some were able to recover a lot quicker, but I was not one of those people.

Re: original request, this should be fixed in next release, but I should have communicated better about variants. OTF/Woff, etc should be in the compile folder, and I think there was a bug in my release script that did not include the extra files. They are there in the source tho.

Alt-a variant:
Started making OpenDyslexic again from scratch to switch to a the better SIL-OFL license. One of the changes I made was making the round-a the default for the lower case a. The previous a is available as a ligature. Originally wanted to make something like a generator online to build an OpenDyslexic but I will be focusing on finishing this up first.

ETA for next release is hopefully a few weeks, but expecting some updates this week as I finish out my build setup and start working on the list of fixes I left from 2020.

[definesfineout]

Wonderful, thanks very much for the updates! Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help 👍