[Openfontlibrary] Some suggestions

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 02:20 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> 
> >On 12/9/05, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Also, there are different versions of fonts. How do you signify updates?
> >>MyFont-3.ttf?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Possible, though I'd prefer usual *nix versioning
> >
> >Btw, what do you think about SVN + .SFD (FontForge project file
> >format)? Each version would have a unique number of its revision then.
> >  
> >
> 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.
> 
> If the font has a suitable license and gets accepted to Debian, for 
> example, it will acquire a name of the form
> ttf-myfont
> The actually package could be ttf-myfont.1.0.zip (or 7z, or tar.gz)
> If the package contains source as well, it could be ttf-myfont-1.0.src.zip
> 
> It would be good to mention the coverage of a font per Unicode ranges 
> (http://www.unicode.org/charts/).
> 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.
> 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.
> 
> Simos Xenitellis
> http://simos.info/blog/
> 

Yes, I completely agree with you. Please add your thoughts to the wiki.
This is all good stuff and we should get it down for future development.

Jon

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