[Openfontlibrary] Some suggestions

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On 12/9/05, Simos Xenitellis wrote:

> Personally I would be more comfortable with a standard versioning scheme:
> <1 if the font is not complete
> 1.0 for first complete version, and in the package it should describe
> what complete means (coverage, etc)
> 1.x for subsequent versions.

Fine with me :)

> It would be good to mention the coverage of a font per Unicode ranges
> (http://www.unicode.org/charts/).

Definitely!

> I believe Alan Wood uses a tool to scan automatically the available
> Unicode ranges in the font.
> http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
> The categorisation there is quite good.

Needs further investigation, thank you

> You can "automatically" create PNG files with font samples using tools
> like LASi++
> http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/
> so the end-user can have a good understand of what a font can or cannot
> do, as in
> http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/fontguide/
>
> Of course, the above are just descriptions. The full credit will go to
> the people that will actually implement.

Could you add all of this to OpenFontLibrary's wiki?

Also, I would still like to know how many people except mewould like
to keep their work on fonts in either CVS or SVN

Alexandre