{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fonttools/fonttools/issues/1173","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fonttools/fonttools","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fonttools/fonttools/issues/1173/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fonttools/fonttools/issues/1173/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fonttools/fonttools/issues/1173/events","html_url":"https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/issues/1173","id":295302094,"number":1173,"title":"[AAT] Implement mifLib","user":{"login":"behdad","id":142891,"avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/142891?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad","html_url":"https://github.com/behdad","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/behdad/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2018-02-07T21:38:38Z","updated_at":"2018-02-08T10:18:00Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"OWNER","body":"Apple's textual format for describing `morx` tables is called MIF. Described here for example:\r\n\r\nhttp://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/fonts/FontToolsDocs/Apple%20Font%20Tool%20Suite.pdf\r\n\r\nFontForge supports it AFAICT.  An example font is available at http://entiumgay.sourceforge.net/#download\r\n\r\nIt's also not clear if MIF supports kerning: https://github.com/grzegorzrolek/kif-compiler"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fonttools/fonttools/issues/comments/364066322","html_url":"https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/issues/1173#issuecomment-364066322","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/fonttools/fonttools/issues/1173","id":364066322,"user":{"login":"olivierberten","id":213117,"avatar_url":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/213117?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten","html_url":"https://github.com/olivierberten","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/olivierberten/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-02-08T10:18:00Z","updated_at":"2018-02-08T10:18:00Z","author_association":"CONTRIBUTOR","body":"That's actually the main reason for my other question ;-) Because MIF is much closer to the binary than the xml is...\r\n\r\nThat said, afaik there aren't that many MIF files in the wild anyway... Here are the other ones I've found until now:\r\n\r\n- https://developer.apple.com/download/more/?q=font\r\n- http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/render_download.php?format=file&media_id=Mondulkiri-7.100-developer&filename=Mondulkiri-7.100-developer.zip\r\n- https://www.evertype.com/fonts/nko/\r\n- http://web.archive.org/web/20070704171536/http://web.nickshanks.com/typography/kannada/\r\n- http://web.archive.org/web/20070704171640/http://web.nickshanks.com/typography/telugu/\r\n- https://code.google.com/archive/p/lohit-telugu-for-mac/downloads\r\n- https://sites.google.com/site/macmalayalam/\r\n- https://github.com/otaka-san/sievphou-seksaa\r\n- https://sourceforge.net/projects/roaat-regular/files/AAT%20Features/\r\n- https://code.google.com/archive/p/myanmar3source/downloads\r\n- https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetengwar/files/TengwarFont/\r\n- https://sourceforge.net/projects/unifraktur/files/fonts/ (only the 2010-* have mif file)\r\n- https://github.com/tugstugi/mongolian-script/tree/master/apple/fonts/AAT\r\n- http://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~hedrick/typography/aat.html\r\n- http://web.archive.org/web/20110425014357/http://people.ktug.or.kr/~nomos/mine/unbatangmorx.mif.txt\r\n- https://sourceforge.net/p/fontforge/mailman/message/25195599/\r\n- http://muthunedumaran.com/2018/01/22/shaping-tamil-fonts-with-aat-for-macos/\r\n- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25300798/how-do-i-add-aat-contextual-ligatures-to-ttf-fonts\r\n\r\n\r\nBTW, FontForge supports some morx features but I don't think FontForge supports MIF itself."}}
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