Web Open Font Format

[jsbien]

Is this format still in use? Seven year ago a WOFF Junicode was created: https://github.com/Fromager/junicode. Would it be easy and reasonable to create an up-to-date WOFF format? Personally I don't need it, but I would like to know whether to mention WOFF in a paper I'm about to write.

[psb1558]

Absolutely, only woff2 is the current format. In a Debian-based system, install the package woff2 and run the program woff2_compress on any font file, or in a directory with a number of font files:

for f in *.ttf; do woff2_compress $f; done

[jsbien]

Thanks for the answer. There is also the question of subsetting. I found https://github.com/zachleat/glyphhanger which looks interesting.

[jsbien]

I forgot you write about in the manual...

[psb1558]

There are several web pages that will subset the font for you, and (to the extent I have tested them) they seem to work pretty well. The reason I suggest pyftsubset is that it gives you very fine control over the font's content. But it's a command-line program (some people can't cope with that), and it has a large number of options to sort through, so there's a learning curve.