v 9.0

[juandelperal]

This version is a big update.

• We are introducing a new subfamily: Montserrat Underline, which is the new version and replacement of Montserrat Subrayada
• Includes many African languages (SSA)
• Improvements for the building pipeline and testing.
• Many other improvements and character extension growth 2731 vs 1968 glyphs

[juandelperal]

Hi @m4rc1e
After merging, I fixed some problems with the building pipeline and the config yamls (latests commits).
Still, after make build I find many files that shouldn't be there:

+sources/.ninja_log
+sources/build.ninja
+sources/instance_ufos/

Is there something wrong in the pipeline? should we .gititnore them?

[m4rc1e]

Looks like something wrong in gftools builder. I'll make a fix.

[kenmcd]

There is an issue in the static ThinItalic fonts affecting the uppercase U.
It appears to be broken.
And not all of the composites are the same.

Montserrat-ThinItalic.otf
Montserrat-ThinItalic.ttf
The VF Italic seems to be fine.

Maybe something in the build process is causing this.

[juandelperal]

Thanks @kenmcd will review it

[juandelperal]

We updated the first point of the shape in case that was the problem, but it didn't work
It seems though that it's related to gftools builder. Comparison:

Built using gftools

Exported directly from Glyphs

It only happens with U, not with similar shapes /W.ss01/U.ss01

cc @m4rc1e

[m4rc1e]

Thanks @kenmcd. This appears to be an issue in fontmake. It seems that the overlap removal step is causing the issue.

[m4rc1e]

@juandelperal got a fix. In the config.yaml, add the following extraStaticFontmakeArgs: "--overlaps-backend pathops"

[juandelperal]

it worked!
Now it should be fixed @kenmcd

Thanks @m4rc1e

[m4rc1e]

Is there anything else we need to do in order to get this released? I think we're going to ignore the bracket layers and INDD issue for this release.

[juandelperal]

I added a known issues section to the readme mentioning these bugs.
Thanks a lot @m4rc1e